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news of the day
After the announcements, the actions. Sanctions against Russia fell on all sides on Wednesday. Leading the way, the United States announced a new round of economic and financial sanctions. In addition to prohibiting all new investment in Russia, the US executive will freeze all assets “in contact with the US financial system” of the essential public bank Sberbank and the largest private bank in the country, Alfa Bank. They will also be prohibited from any transaction with American actors. Finally, Washington will sanction the two daughters of Vladimir Putin: their assets in the United States will be frozen and their links with the American financial system severed.
The United Kingdom has also tightened its sanctions against Moscow by attacking, like the United States, Sberbank, and announcing the end of Russian coal imports. Dutch customs authorities have detained 14 Russian yachts in shipyards. Greece has announced that it will expel twelve Russian diplomats
The phrase
“Crude and cynical provocation”
This is Vladimir Putin’s first reaction to the dead civilians found in the town of Boutcha. During an interview with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Russian president referred to “the crude and cynical provocation on the part of the kyiv regime in the city of Boutcha”, according to a statement from the Kremlin.
The number
$100 million. This is the amount of additional security aid released by the United States for Ukraine. In particular, it will finance Javelin anti-tank systems, used against the Russian army.
The trend of the day
The war is not about to stop for the Secretary General of NATO. “We have to be realistic. War can last a long time, several months or even years. And that is why we must also be prepared for a long journey, both in terms of supporting Ukraine, maintaining sanctions and strengthening our defenses,” said Jens Stoltenberg.
This Wednesday did not mark any slowdown in the fighting. During the night, explosions sounded in the Lviv region. In the east of the country, two civilians were killed in the shelling of an aid distribution center in Vougledar, and shells and rockets fell at regular intervals on the industrial city of Severodonetsk. So much so that kyiv called in the afternoon on the inhabitants of eastern Ukraine to evacuate the region “now”.