It emerged on Tuesday that Russia had become the world’s most sanctioned country due to its war on Ukraine, data by a monitor indicates. According to the global sanctions monitoring database Castellum, Moscow has been subjected to 2,778 new sanctions in just under two weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine, bringing the total to 5,532. In comparison, Iran faced 3,616 sanctions, followed by Syria and North Korea, with 2,608 and 2,077 sanctions respectively.
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