Restrictions also suspend broadcasts of the Arabic-language service of the Russia Today and the Sputnik agency, all amid Western sanctions against Syria, whose government has been confronting terrorist groups since 2011.

According to Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and International Security, the EU´s package of punitive measures also calls for EU members to submit a report on the Russian Central Bank accounts frozen in European banks.

On February 24, 2022, President Vladimir Putin ordered the start of a special operation in Ukraine to protect Donbass people subjected for eight years to Kyiv genocide.

After the war, the West unleashed an economic war against Russia by imposing over 11,000 unilateral punitive actions that had a boomerang effect, especially for Europe, as they included a boycott on Russian gas and oil purchase.

On this occasion, the EU also targeted organizations dedicated to transferring and sheltering some 6,000 children among the two million people who decided to take refuge in Russia, in view of the offensive launched by Ukraine in Donbass at the beginning of February 2022.

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