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The US responded by expanding sanctions designed to cut off funds to the regime's elite.

It would also attempt to close off North Korea's illicit trade networks, by interdicting ships, expanding sanctions against Chinese companies, and freezing the assets of individual leaders.

The Obama administration said on Friday that it is sanctioning Russia's largest bank and expanding sanctions targeting Russia's energy and defence sectors.

Amnesty International, the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe and other international rights groups have urged Mr. Lukashenko to reconsider the case, and the European Union has said it would consider expanding sanctions against Belarus in response.

"We have such a small stake in what they produce and what they market," she said in an interview on the "CBS Evening News" when asked about expanding sanctions.

Regardless, word of further repression are likely to further strain relations with the European Union, which recalled the ambassadors of all its member countries from Belarus in February and is expected to hold talks on expanding sanctions soon.

Russia, meanwhile, has become the target of expanded sanctions.

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With the European Union expected to adopt expanded sanctions this week, Putin painted sanctions as unjustified and ineffective.

Trump meets with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as expanded sanctions against Russia are announced.

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