Biden vows consequences as Putin stages full-scale attack on Ukraine
After weeks of warning of "severe" sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden was set to deliver remarks from the White House Thursday in what's unfolding as a defining moment in his presidency as President Vladimir Putin continued a large-scale attack.
Expected to announce additional sanctions on Russia, Biden will lay out "further consequences the United States and our Allies and partners will impose on Russia for its unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine," according to a White House official.
But it's still unclear how much further those sanctions will go -- and whether they would make any difference in what Putin claimed overnight would be a "special military operation" in eastern Ukraine, but is proving to be much more widespread.
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Will Biden sanction Putin personally?
The Biden administration has threatened further sanctions on major Russian financial institutions and banks, to take steps to restrict Russian access to technology, to cut Russia off from SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) -- which would hinder Russia's participation in global markets, and to directly sanction Putin's inner circle -- or the Russian president himself.
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