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EU Freezes Assets of 826 Russian Arms Suppliers

Europe's largest sanctions listing also bans their 743 bosses from travel

Archive photo: EU finance ministers in session in the Council meeting room at the European Convention Center Luxembourg in April 2024.
Archive photo: EU finance ministers in session in the Council meeting room at the European Convention Center Luxembourg in April 2024. Photo: Julien Nizet (Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Luxembourg — European Union foreign ministers on Monday, 12 October, adopted the bloc's largest-ever set of individual and company sanctions against Russia's military and industrial complex, naming 826 Russian firms and 743 people who run them.

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