Russian banking giant Sberbank has been disconnected from the SWIFT global financial messaging system under a new set of sanctions approved by European Union leaders on Monday. “This sanctions package includes other hard-hitting measures: de-Swifting the largest Russian bank Sberbank,” European Council chief Charles Michel announced following the EU summit.
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The incident reportedly happened as the IAEA rotated personnel at Europe’s biggest atomic facility Russian security guards came under fire after arriving to oversee the rotation of UN observers at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on Thursday, a senior Russian official has reported. He described the incident as a “provocation” from the Ukrainian side.
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