— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
"And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said. "There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said.
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