Russia faces sanctions, Russia sends ‘peacekeepers’ to Ukraine, Trump app
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Russia has sent troops into eastern Ukraine. Is this an act of war or the continuation of the same conflict that's been happening there for the past eight years?
A MARTINEZ, HOST:
Well, that's what the U.S. is trying to decide in order to figure out how to respond. The Biden administration already announced that Americans can't do business in the separatist regions of Ukraine that Putin has now declared independent. But the U.S. is holding back on a fuller set of sanctions against Putin. The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting last night on Ukraine, and this is what U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
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LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD: President Putin is testing our international system. He is testing our res...