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A banner depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin is displayed on the Maidan camp on Independence Square in Kiev on July 28, 2014. The military-style tents and makeshift barricades of black tyres, barbed wire and rubble are still standing in the shadow of charred buildings on Kiev's Independence Square, three months after the bloody protests that forced out a pro-Kremlin regime. The EU was readying a fresh list of sanctions on July 28, sources said, to hit close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin deemed to have profited from Moscow's annexation of Crimea and intervention in Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)