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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Brussels

EU imposes sanctions on Russian motorcycle club and pro-Putin actors

Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said the sanctions were a ‘strong signal to Moscow’. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

New EU sanctions hitting Russian gold, a major bank, a nationalist motorcycle club known as the Nightwolves and actors backing Vladimir Putin have been dismissed as insufficient by Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Approval of the EU’s seventh wave of economic sanctions by the 27 member states on Thursday morning has been lauded by the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, as a “strong signal”.

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