Amid fears that Russia might invade Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says imposing sanctions here would remove barriers.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has refused to impose sanctions on Russia, saying it would prevent Western powers from curbing economic power. Russian cruelty against Ukraine.
The proliferation of Russian troops near its border with Ukraine has raised concerns that Europeans may be under attack. If Russia is at war, Western nations threaten retribution in the face of serious economic problems. Moscow has said it has no plans to revolt.
“In the case of sanctions, the purpose of the sanctions is to prevent Russian violence. So if they start now, you lose the barrier,” Blinken told CNN in an interview on Sunday.
Blinken said that if “another Russian military force enters Ukraine aggressively”, this could lead to a major response.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Washington Post last week that he was helping to impose sanctions here, an opinion approved by Republican lawmakers on Sunday.
“We need to take action now. When it comes to pushing back in Russia, we need to show strength and not be …
Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a close friend of US President Joe Biden, has called for U.S. law to “show certainty and certainty and apply sanctions here,” but said it was important to keep the sanctions very strong.
“The strongest sanctions, the kind of sanctions we use to bring Iran to the table, are something we should ban as a deterrent,” he told ABC News.
Asked if the US was detained in Ukraine for seeking Russia’s assistance in Iran’s nuclear talks, Blinken told CBS News: “Not at all.”
Saturday, first US shipment $ 200m security assistance The Ukrainian package arrived in Kyiv, the US ambassador said.
Russia denies UK allegations
Russian Foreign Minister on Sunday denied British claims that the Kremlin wants to change the Ukrainian government and the Moscow administration, and that the former Ukrainian parliamentary representative Yevheniy Murayev – who denied the allegations.
“This morning I have read in all the journals about this plot: uncertain, baseless,” Murayev said in a video.
He refused to join the Russian military and rejected the idea that he could have an affair with the Kremlin as “stupid”, as he was placed under Russian sanctions in 2018.
Members of the Territorial Defense Forces in Ukraine, a dedicated paramilitary unit, train at a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine. [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]The British Foreign Office on Saturday also named a number of Ukrainian politicians who claim to have links to Russian media organizations, including Murayev, a leader of a minority party that does not have seats in parliament.
Al Jazeera Dorsa Jabbari, from Moscow, said the UK’s statement “seeks to provoke conflict and escalate things with Kyiv”.
“The Kremlin has said that these allegations are false and that their main purpose in disseminating this, as they call it, is to show that these NATO countries are led by the ‘Anglo-Saxons’, who are trying to advance the conflict.” .
