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Trade compliance requirements may require embargoing occupied Ukrainian territories however it isn’t necessarily possible to distinguish between occupied and unoccupied regions. Export controls might be applied based on geoIP with granularity at the country level. Unfortunately the safest position from a compliance perspective is to block the entire country than risk getting it wrong.


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