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LIDW: Russia sanctions require more strategic execution

05/06/25

CDR, 5/6/25

​Brick Court Chambers barrister Maya Lester KC added: “One key problem is that the world is not united on this.”

Other members of the international community do not share the G7 support of Ukraine, or at least not to such a strong extent. Cutting Russia off from the West has sent the state into the arms of countries which are also hostile towards the US, UK and Europe, with Russia divesting from the west to forge links with China, and selling vast quantities of oil to India after the EU amputated its energy ties due to sanctions, for instance.

https://www.cdr-news.com/categories/competition-business-crime/lidw-russia-sanctions-require-more-strategic-execution/