WATCH LIVE: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki delivers daily briefing after the U.S. issued new sanctions on Russia
around Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv, which includes economic penalties on Russian President Vladimir Putin's adult children and top Russian security officials.
"As long as Russia continues its brutal assault on Ukraine, we will stand unified with our allies and partners in imposing additional costs on Russia for its actions," the White House said in an announcement of the sanctions. The actions targeting Sberbank and Alfa Bank, Russia's largest private bank, freeze any of their assets touching a U.S. financial institution and prohibit U.S. citizens from doing business with the two banks. The sanctions on state-owned enterprises, which are not yet named, prohibit any U.S. citizen from doing business with the entities.
The measures are intended to"degrade key instruments on Russian state power" and impose swift economic harm on Russia, sources told CBS News on Tuesday.on Russia after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, a city outside of Kyiv, where Ukrainian officials said they discovered the bodies of civilians after Russian forces withdrew from the area.
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