Author: Steven Sahiounie

Russia’s two largest banks expect to open branches and offices in July in the regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed to have annexed in 2022, the heads of Sberbank and VTB said on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin moved to annex Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in September 2022, following what Ukraine said were sham referendums. The move was condemned by many countries as illegal. Russian forces only partly control the four regions. State-owned Promsvyazbank, which has focused on state employees and the defense sector since it was bailed out by the central bank in 2017, has already…

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