President will reveal sanctions TODAY as Congress urges him to target oligarchs and Russia moves more troops into contested areas
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Tuesday that he is halting the process of certifying the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia
- Russian tanks have rolled into Donetsk and Luhansk after Putin ordered ‘peacekeepers’ into the regions
- Putin last night officially recognized the two areas of Ukraine as independent regions in a press conference
- Biden late last night imposed sanctions against the two breakaway regions of Eastern Ukraine amid the move
- But stopped short of issuing full-blown sanctions against Russia as Western allies deliberate their response
- British authorities meanwhile have announced they will reveal the scale of their sanctions later today
- UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid this morning declared on national television that ‘the invasion has begun’
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed a ‘barrage of sanctions’ will be revealed this afternoon