Canada has spent the last year aggressively imposing sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian players with ties to the simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine, but experts say there’s no evidence that the penalties are having any political impact on the Putin government.
The federal government has imposed sanctions on 85 Russian and 75 Ukrainian individuals implicated in the conflict, along with more than 70 companies and armed groups hostile to Petro Poroshenko’s pro-Western government in Kyiv over the past year.
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Source: Embassy
