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pressure on supporters of the Putin regime. Therefore, the assets associated with the sanctioned oligarchs were frozen.
The amount of assets is 30 billion euros or 32.6 billion dollars. Among them are helicopters, real estate, boats and works of art.
The EU has blocked transactions
In addition to freezing assets, the EU has blocked transactions worth 196 billion Euro. However, only about half of the EU members reported measures to freeze activists of sanctioned oligarchs.
Recall that on April 8, the EU adopted the fifth package of sanctions against Russia, which, in particular, provide for an embargo on coal, closing ports for Russian ships, and a ban on imports to the European Union a number of Russian products, in particular alcohol.
