President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled new, "devastating" sanctions on Russia meant to punish the country for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggression.

"Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. And now he and his country will bear the consequences," Biden said, laying out a set of sanctions including export controls that will "impose severe cost on the Russian economy, both immediately and over time."
Biden addressed the nation from the White House East Room, his first appearance in public since the Russian attack commenced late Wednesday. In written statements, Biden deemed Russia's assault a "premeditated war" and vowed to hold the country accountable.
The new sanctions were selected from a menu of options that includes restrictions on financial institutions, bans on technology exports and blocks targeting members of Putin's inner circle.

The new sanctions, the latest US reprisals against Moscow this week, had been reserved as Biden hoped to maintain some leverage in dissuading Putin from a full-scale invasion. But so far, Western threats of economic punishment, as well as Biden's strategy of revealing what the US knew about Putin's buildup of forces to try to make the Russian leader second-guess himself, have proven ineffective.
After months of predictions and warnings, Russian forces began their attack on Ukraine Thursday morning local time, with reports of troops crossing the border to the north and south, explosions in multiple cities including the capital Kyiv, and warnings from Putin of future bloodshed unless Ukrainian forces lay down their arms.

Biden's sanctions are now meant to punish Putin's actions, rather than prevent them, by going after Russia's economy, its military capabilities and those closest to the Russian President. How much they can alter Putin's decision-making going forward, however, remains an open question.

Before he spoke, Biden conferred with the leaders from the Group of 7 industrialized nations about which sanctions they planned to impose, hoping to coordinate a response that projects unity among Western allies. US and European officials spoke by phone overnight into Thursday to coordinate their responses.

In a joint statement following the virtual meeting, the leaders of the G7 said Putin has "re-introduced war to the European continent."
"He has put himself on the wrong side of history," the leaders wrote.
On Thursday morning, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised to "weaken Russia's economic base and its capacity to modernize" following the "barbaric attack" by Russia against Ukraine.

"We will freeze Russian assets in the European Union and stop the access of Russian banks to European financial markets," she said.
Biden also convened a meeting of his National Security Council on Thursday morning to discuss the situation in Ukraine, a White House official said.

Biden's top national security aides convened emergency meetings late Wednesday as Putin announced his plan to launch a "military operation" against Ukraine in a televised address. The speech was aired in Russia at the same time the United Nations Security Council was convening to condemn Moscow's behavior, catching some delegates off-guard.
Huddled in the West Wing, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan and other top officials prepared a statement from Biden condemning Russia's attack as "unprovoked and unjustified."

"President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering," Biden wrote in the statement, issued at 10:25 p.m. ET just as explosions began in Kyiv.
An hour later, Biden was on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who reached out to the White House as his country was coming under siege.

"He asked me to call on the leaders of the world to speak out clearly against President Putin's flagrant aggression, and to stand with the people of Ukraine," Biden said afterward in a statement. He said the US and its partners planned on "imposing severe sanctions on Russia."
Biden announced a more limited package of sanctions on Monday following Putin's initial decision to send troops into Ukraine following recognition of two pro-Russia regions in the Eastern part of the country. Those measures went after two state-owned financial institutions, three members of Putin's inner circle and Russia's sovereign debt.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/joe-biden-ukraine-russia-sanctions/index.html

Putin is just an opportunist trying to wield power like Hitler did.
By the time his eyes will be clear, it will be too late.

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A lot of people on this forum are actually in support of Putin inwardly because of their hate for America.

weak biden

Russia economy is going down the drain bit by bit...how long can he go with his nonsense?
By the time he realize how deep the effect is on his country then he is gonna understand and regret his actions..

Joe Biden is a weak pvssy for a United States President I've ever seen.

I waited eagerly for his watery speech, right now, Ukraine is so fvking on it's own.

not sanction. military confrontation too

Do you know that i couldn't see anything tangible here. I am beginning to think that USA is a Scam after all. I respect their contribution in poor countries and combat against Virus but they are not doing enough on this issue.

Omicron007:





Putin is just an opportunist trying to wield power like Hitler did.
By the time his eyes will be clear, it will be too late.

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A lot of people on this forum are actually in support of Putin inwardly because of their hate for America.

And some is cos of their so called freedom fight.. while some cos the west didn't give their religion the go ahead to kill anyone against their religion.. beheading and killing.. discrimination against women..

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Russia economy is going down the drain bit by bit...how long can he go with his nonsense?
By the time he realize how deep the effect is on his country then he is gonna understand and regret his actions..

Putin won't win this war.
A lot has changed since the Hitler era.

Why did Usa and NATO allies provoked mad man Putin when they knew they are not going to Fight the Russia or defend Ukrainians?

Usa and NATO countries are busy raising funds for war that could have been avoided. Is it today they have been sanctioning Russia individuals and companies? Have that deterred Putin from carry on with his plans.

Pakistan president met with Putin today, another nuclear country. Iran, China and North Korea would definitely be in support of Russia. What was the provocation for exactly?

Omicron007:


Putin won't win this war.
A lot has changed since the Hitler era.

He will never ever..I believe 100 he will never..
He won't be able to go for long till his economy goes down completely..

I watch Biden speech just now.

Russia is a super power and you shouldn't expect America to confront then like that. Putin knows all of that before the invasion.

Similar Russia will never confront America it's a respect for being super power.

Sanctions will affect Russia on the long run.

fineboynl:
I watch Biden speech just now.

Russia is a super power and you shouldn't expect America to confront then like that. Putin knows all of that before the invasion.

Similar Russia will never confront America it's a respect for being super power.

Sanctions will affect Russia on the long run.

Why then did Usa and NATO allies provoked Putin who might be going mad against Ukraine that is no match to Russia? To eve say they are not going to send any troops to help Ukrainians , Selensky is so stupid to be fooled like that. He is truly a comendian

You are a fool if you support Russia, North Korea, China and Iran over America accept American Visa over those countries you support..

I repeat you are a big fool