Manon Fossat 10:18 a.m., February 27, 2022
The battle for control of Kiev continues on Sunday, as the West further increases pressure on Moscow, excluding Russian banks from the Swift interbank platform and preparing to deliver more weapons to Ukraine.
In the Grand Rendez-Vous, the European commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, affirmed that Putin "underestimated the unanimous reaction of the West".
Russian forces continue their invasion of Ukraine, four days after Vladimir Putin's declaration.
While the capital Kiev is still resisting on Sunday morning, fighting is underway in the country's second city, Kharkiv.
The Russian army has also surrounded two major cities in the south of the country, Kherson and Berdyansk.
The violence of the Russian intervention pushed the West on Saturday to adopt a new set of tougher sanctions: they decided in particular to exclude many Russian banks from the Swift interbank platform, an essential cog in global finance, announced the German government, which chairs the G7 forum.
Guest of the Grand Rendez-Vous on Sunday, the European commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, affirmed that "Vladimir Putin underestimated the unanimous reaction of the West".
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