Russia has been hit with 2,778 new sanctions since invading Ukraine, database reports

Vladimir Putin.
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Russia is now the world's most-sanctioned nation, just 10 days after President Vladimir Putin forged ahead with an invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.

The 2,778 new sanction designations against Russia since Feb. 22 have kicked the country past both Iran, Syria, and North Korea and brought its count to a total of over 5,530, Bloomberg writes per Castellum.ai, a global sanctions tracking database.

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Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.