EU: Fresh Russia sanctions over 'sham' elections in occupied Ukraine

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49% : Those sanctioned included 74 candidates who stood in the September elections in what Russia calls the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, the Republic of Crimea, as well as the part-Russian-controlled provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the European of the EU said in a news release.
45% : " Monday's sanctions were accompanied by a parallel set of sanctions targeting more than 1,500 people and entities that the Council of the EU says are part of Russia's military industrial complex.
39% : " The EU roundly condemned the elections at the time saying it would never recognize them with the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas branding them another "blatant violation by Russia of international law, including the U.N. Charter, and of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
21% : " Those named are banned from entering or transiting EU territories and assets held in member countries will be frozen while EU and companies are barred from "making funds, financial assets or economic resource available.
17% : European Union member states announced Monday sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, on 77 individuals over their involvement in illegal polls in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to elect representatives to Russia's parliament.

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