Latest Ukraine developments: • EU to freeze the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. • Russia announces “partial restriction” of access to Facebook after it limits accounts of several Kremlin-backed media.
The restrictions on the accounts, according to Roskomnadzor, included marking their content as unreliable and imposing technical restrictions on the search results to reduce the publications’ audiences on Facebook.
A decision to freeze their assets indicates that Western powers are moving toward unprecedented measures to force Putin to stop the brutal invasion of Russia’s neighbor and from unleashing a major war in Europe.“We are not just listing oligarchs, we haven’t just already listed many lawmakers who prepared these steps, but we are now also listing the president, Mr. Putin, and the foreign minister, Mr. Lavrov,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.
EU ministers have said that even further sanctions were still possible, including booting Russia off SWIFT, the dominant system for global financial transactions. Yet with the Kremlin’s eyes fully targeted on expanding the attacks on Ukraine, almost of the action was still going one way. And just as Russia was making a pincer movement to choke Ukraine and its capita,l Kyiv, Western powers were implementing measures aimed at “asphyxiating Russia’s economy,” in the words of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
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