{"id":7306,"date":"2022-02-23T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2022-02-23T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:37:13","slug":"u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-russian-banks-sovereign-debt-and-elites-after-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian banks, sovereign debt and elites after Ukraine invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The latest package would issue sanctions on two major Russian banks and on the country\u2019s sovereign debt, meaning it can no longer raise money from the West and trade new debt on U.S. or European markets, the president said. Starting tomorrow, the U.S. will also impose sanctions on Russian elites and their family members, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden called the moves \u201cthe first tranche\u201d of punitive measures the U.S. is prepared to take, and he said they would go far beyond the steps the U.S. and its allies took in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a flagrant violation of international law, and it demands a firm response from the international community,\u201d he said of Putin\u2019s decision to send Russian forces into the territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden also said the U.S. would continue to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine in the meantime, and said he has authorized additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment already stationed in Europe \u201cto strengthen our Baltic allies \u2014 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/22\/u-s-sanctions-russia-ukraine-invasion-00010733\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/22\/u-s-sanctions-russia-ukraine-invasion-00010733<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The latest package would issue sanctions on two major Russian banks and on the country\u2019s sovereign debt, meaning it can no longer raise money from the West and trade new debt on U.S. or European markets, the president said. Starting tomorrow, the U.S. will also impose sanctions on Russian elites and their family members, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden called the moves \u201cthe first tranche\u201d of punitive measures the U.S. is prepared to take, and he said they would go far beyond the steps the U.S. and its allies took in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a flagrant violation of international law, and it demands a firm response from the international community,\u201d he said of Putin\u2019s decision to send Russian forces into the territories.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also said the U.S. would continue to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine in the meantime, and said he has authorized additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment already stationed in Europe \u201cto strengthen our Baltic allies \u2014 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,217,272,355,314,1545,259,315,1001,226,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-economics","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-trade","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}