The news focus on Presidents Day was of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, as he ordered troops to enter two separatist regions of Ukraine for “peacekeeping” purposes after he recogn…
Cable news networks carried parts of Putin’s speech, with his move viewed by correspondents and foreign policy analysts as another step toward war.poised to issue an executive order to prohibit trade, investment and financing in those areas.
“To be clear: these measures are separate from and would be in addition to the swift and severe economic measures we have been preparing in coordination with Allies and partners should Russia further invade Ukraine,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.David Muir, with an ABC News special report, said that Putin’s move was one that “leaders in the West had been most concerned about that could possibly spark a much larger conflict.
NBC News’ Keir Simmons, In Moscow, cautioned, “I think you got to be very careful to take one step at a time, to report what we are being told by intelligence analysts, but to not over read. What we saw in Crimea was President Putin’s forces go in with barely any conflict at all. It’s possible that we now see that in Donbas because Ukraine, Kyiv, will be desperate for there not to be further conflict. Plainly, it breaks the Minsk agreement so I think we will see these sanctions come into play.
Biden has been meeting with his national security team and talked to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. Networks have been sending additional correspondents to the region in the past week, as the crisis has escalated and the White House has warned that an invasion is imminent.from Ukraine on Sunday, noted that the White House “has made specific predictions about the timing and the course of the Russian invasion despite the obvious risk to American credibility. They could be wrong.” Senior White House correspondent Mary Bruce told her that it was an “astounding strategy for this administration.
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