The United States will announce on Wednesday, in coordination with the G7 and the European Union (EU), a new package of sanctions against Russia to “take it even further down the path of economic, financial and technological isolation”, after the alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha (Ukraine).
A source familiar with the decision said that this measure will include a ban on all new investments in Russia, as well as increased sanctions against Russian state-owned and financial institutionsand other additional against officials of the Government and their families.
Sanctions will help undermine the instruments of power that Russia has, will inflict “acute and immediate” damage on Moscow and will hold Russia’s “kleptocracy” accountable for financing President Vladimir Putin’s war, according to the US source.
He added that The US “has concluded” that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine “and the information from Bucha seems to show more evidence” of such crimes, so Washington will work with its allies to ensure that accountability occurs and one of the instruments for this is sanctions.
The Ukrainian government and several Western countries, such as the US, have accused Russia of being behind the alleged massacre of civilians in the town of Buchanorthwest of kyiv, discovered a few days ago, something that Moscow denies, which calls the accusations false.
The US and its Western partners have imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
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