War in Ukraine: Biden administration further expands financial sanctions against Russia

Following the crimes committed in particular to Bantha, the United States accentuates their pressure on Moscow, aiming, in addition to symbolic personalities such as Putin girls, the financial sector. Objective: To increase the price of the invasion, failing to prevent it.

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An extra cran. The United States has accentuated their economic and financial pressure on Russia by announcing new sanctions, Wednesday, April 6th. This decision, immediately followed by the United Kingdom, comes after the international shock caused by the images of the corpses of civilians, slaughtered in the municipality of Bantcha.

“Major war crimes” are committed by the Russian forces, “said President Joe Biden. On a symbolic plane, the American treasure targets the two daughters of Vladimir Putin, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, the wife and the daughter of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov and, finally, all (twenty and one) of the members of the Council national security. Without revealing the details, the Biden administration believes that many assets belonging to the Russian president are “hidden” in his family circle.

In total, 140 businessmen and members of their entourage, as well as 400 Russian officials, are already on the list of American sanctions. One way to make these radioactive elites and limit, hope to Washington, their displacement and enrichment capabilities. “Our eyes are fixed on every yacht and jet, explained the Assistant General Attorney, Lisa Monaco. Our eyes are fixed on each piece of art and real estate bought with dirty money and on each Bitcoin portfolio filled with the recipes flights or other crimes. “

In spite of these voluntarist remarks, the questions are multiplying about American sanctions, decided in close cooperation with the European Allies. The preservation of Russian revenues in the energy sector due to European indecision, the massive intervention of the Russian central bank in support of the ruble, returned to its prior to the war relative to the dollar, as well as the ‘Rigorous alignment of the elites behind the Kremlin on behalf of a so-called “existential” mission in Ukraine do not seem to draw a fairly incentive crisis in the short term to stop the war.

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It is again the Russian financial sector that is targeted by the US administration, to increase the price of invasion, failing to prevent it. “The reality is that the country sinks into an economic, financial and technological isolation,” Wednesday explained to the press a senior official. At this rate, he will return to the Soviet life standards of the 1980s. “Two Institutions are this time in the sight, Sberbank and Alfabank. Prohibition will be made to any citizen or entity, in the United States, to make the slightest transaction with them, regardless of the currency. “The Sberbank is the main artery of the Russian financial system, indicated the US official. She alone holds one-third of the assets of the banking sector, more than $ 500 billion [460 billion euros].” / p>

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