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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant

Swift: EU leaders line up to back banning Russia from banking network

Demonstration placard
Protesters outside the Russian embassy in London on Saturday hold a placard calling for Russia to be banned from the Swift payments system. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

More EU countries – including France, Italy, Spain and Greece – have said they would back a ban on Russia using the Swift global payments network in a bid to pile further pressure on the country after its invasion of Ukraine.

Cyprus and Hungary also said they would support such a measure.

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