“We have woken up in a different world today.” Those were the words of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in a speech on Feb. 24, just hours after Russian forces began an assault on Ukraine. It’s a sentiment that echoed around the world in the days following the invasion, which marked the biggest attack on […]
. It’s a sentiment that echoed around the world in the days following the invasion, which marked the biggest attack on a European state since World War II. As the bombs fell on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, governments in Washington, London and Brussels scrambled to come up with an appropriate response to Moscow’s aggression.
The result has been unprecedented moves to sanction Russia and its leader, President Vladimir Putin. The European Union closed its airspace to Russian flights, banned transactions with Russia’s central bank and approved some $500 million in funding for EU member states to buy and ship arms to Ukraine to help its citizens fight off the invaders. The U.S., together with the EU, the U.K.
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