'His decision should immediately be met with forceful sanctions to destroy the ruble and crush the Russian oil and gas sector,' said the senator on Twitter.
Graham took to
Putin's official recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states is expected to worsen the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. This prediction is due to the fact that their separations led to the 2015 Minsk Agreements that ended the Ukrainian war that same year. Newsweek previously reported that granting independence to Donetsk and Luhansk violates this agreement, something that Graham also emphasized in his Twitter thread.
"To be clear: these measures are separate from and would be in addition to the swift and severe economic measures we have been preparing in coordination with Allies and partners should Russia further invade Ukraine," she wrote.
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