Crypto界 News reports that, according to TRM Labs, on July 23 the European Council approved the 21st round of sanctions against Russia, expanding the transaction ban to 14 offshore crypto-related platforms and entities, including rapira, aifory pro, abcex, whitebird, noonecrypto, tradex, monease, bitpapa, exnode / exnode pay, htx, exmo, a7 nigeria, a7 africa, and pilotfinance. The measures involve Georgia, Panama, the UAE, the Marshall Islands, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus. The package also, for the first time, grants the EU authorization to impose an overall restriction on that country’s crypto-asset services when platforms in third countries assist Russia in evading sanctions.