Biden condemns Moscow’s ‘fraudulent annexation attempt’, sanctions Russia’s Central Bank Governor

United States President Joe Bidenhe has unequivocally condemned the “fraudulent annexation attempt” committed this Friday by Russia from the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, a gesture of “contempt” for peace to which Washington immediately responded by new penalties wing Governor of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina Already members of both houses of the country’s legislature, among others.

“Let no one be deceived,” Biden said. “These actions have no legitimacy and the United States will always respect Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.he added in the statement issued this afternoon by the White House.

With this “annexation attempt,” Biden proclaims, Russia “violates international law, tramples on the Charter of the United Nations, and shows its contempt for the peaceful nations of the world.”

So, and “in response to false claims of annexation,” Biden announced new sanctions that cfreeze assets abroad both Central Bank Governor as his deputy, as well as 169 members of the Federation Council of Russia, the equivalent of the Senate, and other cent of the lower house, the Duma.

“Since becoming Governor of the Central Bank in 2013, Nabiullina has overseen efforts to shield the Kremlin from Western sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea in Ukraine and the invasion of Ukraine. ‘Ukraine in 2022’, according to a statement from the Treasury. Department that tIt also punishes the bank’s “number two”, Olga Skorobogatova, responsible for supervising the Russian national payment system Mir.

Sanctions also punish relatives of senior Russian officials already sanctioned by the United States, such as the wife and two adult daughters of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, or the wife and two eldest children of the country’s Prime Minister, Mijail Mishustin.