and oligarchs repo tasks force will redouble efforts to hol russia accountable for its unjust war countering russian efforts t undermine circumvent or evad repose collective sanction joining us now is edward fishman, who served as a russi sanctions lead at the stat department and house policy planning staf are to then secretary of state john kerry thank you very much for joinin us again tonight, what is your assessment of how the sanction are actually working against the intended targets lawrence, you know, the sanctions are not working fast enough you, know they re certainl having a big impact on russia economy, the economy last year in 2022 contracted by at least two and a half percent which is a pretty significan recession that russia is going through. so there is no doubt that th sanctions are impeding putin s war machine, they re hurting russia, they are hurting the oligarchs. but of course they are not
of 5. 4 million in funds a foreign assistance to ukraine. the russian elites processes and oligarchs repo tasks force will redouble efforts to hol russia accountable for its unjust war countering russian efforts t undermine circumvent or evad repose collective sanction joining us now is edward fishman, who served as a russi sanctions lead at the stat department and house policy planning staf are to then secretary of state john kerry thank you very much for joinin us again tonight, what is your assessment of how the sanction are actually working against the intended targets lawrence, you know, the sanctions are not working fast enough you, know they re certainl having a big impact on russia economy, the economy last year in 2022 contracted by at least two and a half percent which is a pretty significan
The international community responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with harsh sanctions. But a year later, Russia is still fighting in Ukraine. Have sanctions failed?