Biden slaps sanctions on Putin as Russian president continues attack on Ukraine
As Russian forces push deeper into Ukraine in the largest ground war in Europe since World War II, Ukrainian officials urge citizens to fight back.
The White House has so far targeted Russia’s largest banks and several oligarchs who are close to Putin. It has avoided hitting the country’s energy sector out of concern about the impact on energy markets and stopped short of barring Russia from the SWIFT banking system, a secure communications network vital to international transactions that connects more than 11,000 banks.that Putin has long sought to deepen Europe’s dependence on Russia’s energy resources.
Biden and NATO allies have moved mostly in lockstep in responding to Putin’s aggression. But with Russian bombs exploding in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, a clearly exhausted Zelensky pleaded on Friday for the U.S. and Europe to do more to back Ukraine’s military and the civilians who are taking up arms and massing in the streets.
Following his first call with Biden since the invasion began in earnest on Tuesday, Zelensky tweeted his gratitude for additional U.S. assistance, suggesting that more sanctions and defense aid from Washington were in the offing.
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