The Russian Foreign Ministry announced today (Tuesday) that it will extend sanctions to 25 other Americans, including the wife and wife of the US president Joe Biden Entered the Moscow “blacklist”. The move was made “in response to growing US sanctions against Russian political and public figures,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
At the same time, Ukraine is asking Western countries to tighten sanctions against Russia. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kolba said yesterday that the G7 countries must respond to the Russian missile attack on Kyiv earlier this morning, by tightening sanctions and increasing arms shipments to Ukraine: “This seven-year-old Ukrainian girl is sleeping peacefully in Kiev until a Russian cruise missile blows up her home. “Many more across Ukraine are under attack. The G7 summit must respond, and morbid Russian imperialism must stop,” Kolba tweeted on his Twitter account.
At the same time, G7 leaders are expected to show a united support front in Ukraine and increase pressure on the Kremlin – despite their desire to avoid imposing further sanctions on Russia that could exacerbate inflation and the global cost of living crisis. German Chancellor Olaf Schultz said that “beyond the message that NATO and the G7 are united today more than ever, the summit should send another message that democracies around the world oppose Putin’s imperialist aspirations just as much as they fight hunger and poverty around the world.” said.