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West unveils sanctions with more ready if Russia launches full-scale Ukraine invasion

Ukrainians hold a banner as they protest outside the Russian embassy after Moscow's decision to formally recognise two Russian-backed regions of eastern Ukraine as independent in central Kyiv, Ukraine on February 22, 2022. [Reuters]

Western nations and Japan on Tuesday punished Russia with new sanctions for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and threatened to go further if Moscow launched an all-out invasion of its neighbour.

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