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Feb 22 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
MORE: @USTreasury w/details on initial economic sanctions vs #Russia ImageImageImageImage
Sanctioned #Russia|n banks include Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs Vnesheconombank (VEB) & Promsvyazbank Public Joint Stock Company (PSB), & also 42 of their subsidiaries, per @USTreasury
"VEB is crucial to #Russia’s ability to raise funds, and PSB is critical to Russia's defense sector" per @USTreasury
.@USTreasury also outlining sanction vs those close to #Russia Pres #Putin:
-Denis Aleksandrovich Bortnikov (the son of #FSB Dir Aleksandr Bortnikov)
-Petr Fradkov, (CEO of PSB, son of former #SVR director Mikhail Fradkov)
-Sergei Kiriyenko, Putin's domestic policy curator
Per @USTreasury, here are the blocked VEB & PSB subsidiaries ImageImage
US sanctions also impacting 5 vessels owned by #Russia's PSB: Image

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Feb 24
BREAKING: Senior US defense official says #Russia's ops in #Ukraine just getting started

"What we are seeing is initial phases of a large scale invasion" per the official "They're making a move on #Kyiv"
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.@NATO's @jensstoltenberg calls #Russia invasion of #Ukraine "a brutal act of war"

"Sadly what we have warned against for months has come to pass" he says "Peace in our continent has been shattered. We now have war in #Europe, on a scale & of a type we thought belong to history"
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Feb 24
NEW: #Russia|n Ambassador to the @UN talking of "liberating" #Ukraine

"I am sure the ppl of Ukraine will be happy when they are liberated from the regime that occupied them" Vassily Nebenzia tells @VOANews following Security Council meeting Image
MORE: Ukraine leaders "got what what they were asking for" #Russia's ambassador to the UN told @VOANews
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"Forces are working towards isolating #Kyiv at this very moment"
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Feb 24
BREAKING: #Russia-state media carrying word of Vladimir Putin's decision to launch "special operation" in #Donbas #Ukraine ImageImageImage
MORE: #Russia|n President Vladimir Putin said the special military operation in #Ukraine "will strive for demilitarization & de-Nazification...as well as bringing to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians"

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Feb 23
NEW: @TheJusticeDept launching new Strategy for Countering Nation-State Threats, Asst AG Matthew Olsen tells audience at @MasonNatSec

"We see nations such as #China, #Russia, #Iran & #NorthKorea becoming more aggressive & more capable...than ever before"
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BREAKING: #Russia's +150,000 troops encircling #Ukraine "as ready as they can be" per senior US defense official

80% of Russian forces "in forward position ready to go" w/some within 5km of Ukraine border
"They are literally ready to go now if they get the order to go" per sr US defense official

re #Russia|n forces surrounding #Ukraine
#Russia's #Putin-"He is near 100% of all the forces we anticipated he would [move] in...He is dang near it" per senior US defense official

re: #Ukraine
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