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Ukraine will expand financial and other sanctions against Russian individuals and companies, paralleling U.S. efforts to punish Moscow for its actions in Ukraine and elsewhere.

President Petro Poroshenko, who made the announcement on May 2 after a meeting with his National Security and Defense Council, did not specify whom the sanctions would target or when they would take effect.

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