War in Ukraine The EU, the US and the UK include Putin and Lavrov on the sanctions list and freeze their assets
Analysis Why the sanctions against Russia will have little effect
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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