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EU adopts largest sanctions package on Russia: 218 names and 100+ banks and crypto platforms among those on the list

Banks, refineries, drone parts, crypto exchanges: the bloc's 21st sanctions package reaches further into Russia's economy than any round before it.

byYuri Zoria

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Trade, banks, energy, crypto—the EU keeps its full Russia economic sanctions wall standing to 2027

The Council also held open the door to a 21st package still being negotiated.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 26 April 2026. Photo: Zelenskyy on Telegram

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Ukraine says it has Russia’s hidden war-damage assessment — one Moscow won’t show its own population

A single mid-sized Russian oil company has been forced to shut down around 400 wells.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian civilians queuing at post office with overlaid photos of war crimes investigators Dmytro Kovalchuk and Kristin Rosella

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Interview

“Stop treating Russia’s bankers as faceless technocrats”: inside the war crimes case against Russia’s central bank

A landmark ICC complaint reframes Russia's financial occupation of Ukraine — pillaged banks, forced rubles, and passport-gated medical care — as a war crime

byDaniel Thomas

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Money Matters

Russia forced its banks to fund the war—now the bill is coming due

First top-10 bank posts losses as bad debt breaches crisis threshold.

byPeeter Helme

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Bloomberg: Russian banks fear systemic crisis within 12 months as Ukraine war debt mounts

Russian banks are sitting on trillions of rubles in bad debt as corporate and retail borrowers struggle with 20% interest rates, creating what banking officials privately describe as a dangerous situation that could trigger systemic crisis within a year.

byMaria Tril

A screenshot from the Reporting from Ukraine video, 17 March.

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Frontline report

RFU News: US delivered its harshest economic blow yet against Moscow after ceasefire rejection

Russian banks can no longer process international energy transactions, endangering the Kremlin's primary war funding mechanism. The expiration of a key exemption also triggers secondary sanctions risk for any nation trading with Moscow.

byReporting from Ukraine

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Media: Ukraine targets Russia’s Central Bank in major DDoS attack

Media security source claims that Ukrainian intelligence has initiated a week-long, large-scale DDoS attack on Russia’s Central Bank, significantly disrupting its operations and affecting Russian online financial services

byYuri Zoria

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US authorizes Russian bank transactions for energy payments amid sanctions

The US Treasury has temporarily authorized transactions with several major Russian banks for energy-related payments, according to a recent license by the US Treasury

byMaria Tril

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EU adopts 9th package of economic & individual sanctions against Russia: about 200 entities sanctioned

On 16 December, the Council of the European Union adopted the ninth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation…

byYuri Zoria

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Analysis

This Belgian firm saved Russian financial system from collapse (and keeps doing it now)

After Russia invaded Ukraine, the largest payment systems Visa and Mastercard left the market of the aggressor country,…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

A Russian military vehicle in front of an Alfa-Bank office in Moscow, Russia (Image: vedomosti.ru)

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Top Moscow bank to stop servicing sanctioned Russian defense firms

Oleg Sysuyev, the deputy head of Alfa-Bank, Russia's seventh largest bank by net assets, says that his institution will…

byPaul A. Goble

Top Russian banks. (Image: hyser.com.ua)

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Russia considering introducing Islamic banking to get around Western sanctions

Facing ever greater difficulty in raising money in the West because of sanctions and calls by its own…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian banks

EU adopts largest sanctions package on Russia: 218 names and 100+ banks and crypto platforms among those on the list

Trade, banks, energy, crypto—the EU keeps its full Russia economic sanctions wall standing to 2027

Ukraine says it has Russia’s hidden war-damage assessment — one Moscow won’t show its own population

“Stop treating Russia’s bankers as faceless technocrats”: inside the war crimes case against Russia’s central bank

Russia forced its banks to fund the war—now the bill is coming due

Bloomberg: Russian banks fear systemic crisis within 12 months as Ukraine war debt mounts

RFU News: US delivered its harshest economic blow yet against Moscow after ceasefire rejection

Media: Ukraine targets Russia’s Central Bank in major DDoS attack

US authorizes Russian bank transactions for energy payments amid sanctions

EU adopts 9th package of economic & individual sanctions against Russia: about 200 entities sanctioned

This Belgian firm saved Russian financial system from collapse (and keeps doing it now)

Top Moscow bank to stop servicing sanctioned Russian defense firms

Russia considering introducing Islamic banking to get around Western sanctions

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