EU LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS OVER ‘HYBRID’ CIVIL DISORDER ATTACKS
October 8th, 2024
The European Union (EU) has widened activities that can spark EU sanctions to include so-called ‘hybrid’ threats, such as undermining electoral systems and hacking, which it says are employed by the Russian state and associated Russians. As Ukraine continues to fight a full-scale Russian invasion launched in February 2022, the EU Council of Ministers has approved the legal authority for imposing sanctions on [people and institutions seeking to weaken governance in the EU as it supports the Ukrainian resistance.
That includes undermining democratic ...
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