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Yehor Bozhok, the SZRU chief at its headquarters, nicknamed 'The Forest', outside Kiev (Photo: szru.gov.ua)

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Ukraine spy chief: sanctions hurting Putin's war chest

by Andrew Rettman, KIEV AND KRAMATORSK,

EU and US economic sanctions on Russia had a much bigger impact than previously thought, Ukraine's spy chief has said.

"One of the estimates which we managed to learn, Russian internal estimates, is that Western sanctions ... forced the Russian budget to lose $173bn [€151bn] already, which is quite a lot," Yehor Bozhok, the head of Ukraine's foreign intelligence service, the SZRU, told EUobserver in an interview in Kiev in January.

"This is their [Russia's] internal assessment, w...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Yehor Bozhok, the SZRU chief at its headquarters, nicknamed 'The Forest', outside Kiev (Photo: szru.gov.ua)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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