The West launches the expulsion of some Russian banks from the Swift system

• International support The US increases its military aid to Ukraine and the EU will facilitate the delivery of weapons

• War Kiev resists the first attack of Russia

The

, in coordination with

have announced tonight that they will further punish the Russian economy to try to force

to stop the invasion of

.

Among the measures that "will be implemented in the coming days", the expulsion of a series of Russian financial entities from

, as well as actions to prevent the

from offsetting the effect of the punitive "massive package" with its international reserves , freezing their assets.

This was announced this Saturday night by the president of the European Commission,

, in a statement after 11:00 p.m.

"The war launched by Russia is an assault on international rules, on the foundations and norms in force since the

, and that we, the leaders of the Commission, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, are committed to. to defend. Russia will be responsible and together we will make sure that the war is a strategic failure for Putin," Von der Leyen promised.

The EU approved the first package of measures on Wednesday and the second on Friday, after a

.

But they already warned that there would be more measures depending on the behavior of the

.

And the answer has taken less than 24 hours to arrive to "hit the main institutions and banks, as well as the architects of this war".

Among them, one of the most anticipated: push to kick some Russian banks out of the Swift system, a private mechanism based in

(and therefore operational with European laws) used by 11,000 entities throughout the plan.

It is used to quickly communicate operations and transactions and being left out would make the daily work of financing military operations extremely difficult.

It was already done with Iran, as part of the sanctions package, but there were several very reluctant countries.

However, the most skeptical, Germany or Italy, have given in as it is a more surgical measure and not against the entire Russian system.

In addition, the West targets the Russian Central Bank.

said Von der Leyen.

Ensuring that they will not be able to liquidate them.

The third measure will be to end the passports for the rich, the golden passports.

, said the President of the Commission.

"Which allows wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government to become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems."

The Western powers will create a

to ensure that the sanctions are effective, guarantee the freezing of assets of those responsible for the aggression.

"As part of this effort, we are committed to applying sanctions and other financial measures against Russian officials and elite close to the Russian government, as well as their families and facilitators to identify and freeze the assets they hold in our jurisdictions. We will also engage others governments and will work to detect and disrupt the movement of ill-gotten gains, and to deny these individuals the ability to hide their assets in jurisdictions around the world," the statement said.

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