U.S. President Joe Biden introduced on Tuesday (February 22) new sanctions in retaliation for Russia recognizing two breakaway areas of Ukraine and sending troops there, including to Western efforts to cease what they worry is the start of a full-scale invasion.
The measures goal Russian banks and sovereign debt, amongst different steps.
One of many worst safety crises in Europe in a long time is unfolding as Russian President Vladimir Putin approved sending what he calls peacekeeping troops to separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk after recognizing them as unbiased.
Weeks of intense diplomacy have thus far failed as Moscow requires safety ensures, together with a promise that its neighbor Ukraine won’t ever be a part of NATO, whereas the US and its allies provide Putin confidence-building and arms management steps.
“He’s organising a rationale to take extra territory by power,” Biden stated on the White Home.
Biden added that, “there’s nonetheless time to avert the worst case situation.”
(Reuters)