A multinational task force has frozen $30 billion in funds belonging to sanctioned Russian individuals and $300 billion in Russian Central Bank assets, the US Treasury Department announced on Wednesday.
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Despite opposition from multiple members, the bloc wants to press ahead with the controversial step The European Union will reportedly not impose an eighth round of sanctions on Moscow unless its member states agree to include a price cap on Russian oil exports.
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Berlin’s first reaction to Friday’s revelations that several German generals discussed helping Ukraine plot an attack on Russia was to launch an investigation into how the recording got out. RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan first published a transcript of the conversation between senior Luftwaffe officers discussing the matter, followed by a 38-minute audio recording.
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