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The United States will go further than the

European Union

in economic sanctions against

Vladimir Putin

for the invasion of

Ukraine

.

The White House has announced that it is going to freeze the assets of the Russian dictator in the country and, in addition, to prohibit his entry into his territory.

Putin thus places himself in a select group of world leaders, including the Sudanese

Omar al-Bashir

, accused of genocide.

The Biden administration is also going to freeze the assets of Russian Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov

.

The measures follow the pattern of those announced by the European Union this Friday morning, and in fact Biden announced them after a telephone conversation with the president of the European Commission,

Ursula von der Leyen

.

However, Brussels had not gone so far as to bar Putin from entering its territory.

In the next few hours, the British government will announce similar measures that, again, the ban on Putin from entering the country will not be among them.

"The measure has been under discussion for some time, but has been taken in coordination with our European partners and allies in the last day," Biden

spokeswoman Jan Psaki

said in announcing the move.

The ban on entering the US is a highly symbolic measure, although it does not affect visits to the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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