{"id":76243,"date":"2026-02-05T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/05\/sanctions-significant-impact-russian-economy-interview-eu-special-envoy-david-osullivan"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:00:21","slug":"sanctions-having-significant-impact-on-russian-economy-says-eu-special-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76243","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions having \u2018significant impact\u2019 on Russian economy, says EU special envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: David O\u2019Sullivan says war-based economy may be nearing point of becoming \u2018unsustainable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Western sanctions are having a \u201csignificant impact\u201d on the Russian economy, the EU\u2019s sanctions envoy has said, ahead of the fourth anniversary of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>David O\u2019Sullivan, a veteran Irish official, said sanctions were \u201cnot a silver bullet\u201d and would always face circumvention, but insisted that after four years he was confident they were having an effect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/05\/sanctions-significant-impact-russian-economy-interview-eu-special-envoy-david-osullivan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: David O\u2019Sullivan says war-based economy may be nearing point of becoming \u2018unsustainable\u2019Western sanctions are having a \u201csignificant impact\u201d on the Russian economy, the EU\u2019s sanctions envoy has said, ahead of the fourth anniversary of Moscow\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,1448,530,62,419,930,818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-european-commission","category-european-union","category-india","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76243\/revisions\/76244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}