The West-East stand-off over the former Soviet country Ukraine escalated vividly on Tuesday, with Russian policymakers approving the request of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, to use Armed Force outside his state and Joe Biden, the U.S. President, and Western leaders reacting by announcing harsh sanctions on Russian banks and oligarchs.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin indicated that an even larger conflict could lie ahead. The Russian leader has yet to set free the power of the 150K military personnel accumulated on three sides of East European Ukraine, while the U.S. President constrained even severe sanctions that could cause an economic crisis for Moscow but stated they’d proceed if there is further military action.

The actions, accompanied by the relocation of more American forces to the three Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia on North Atlantic Alliance’s eastern flank neighboring Russia, came as Russian Armed Forces rolled into separatists-controlled regions in Ukraine’s East after Mr. Putin stated he was acknowledging the independence of the rebel areas in rebelliousness of European and American demands.

President Biden said at the White House speech that Moscow had deliberately broken the international law in what he termed the ‘beginning of a Russian attack of Ukraine.’ Moreover, he cautioned against further sanctions if Putin went ahead. Biden said they’re joined together to support Ukraine, adding they’re joined together in their hostility to the Russian invasion. He added that when it comes to Moscow’s assertions of a justification or pretext for an attack. Furthermore, Joe Biden said that no one of them should be double-crossed, and no one of them will be conned. There’s no explanation.

US Moved to Cut off International Financing

Anticipations for a diplomatic solution to the threat of an attack, which American officials have for weeks depicted as all but foreseeable, appeared to evaporate. Antony Blinken, the U.S. State Secretary, annulled plans for a meeting scheduled on Thursday in Switzerland with Sergey Lavrov, saying it wouldn’t be effective and that the Kremlin’s moves signaled Russia wasn’t sincere regarding a peaceful solution to deal the Ukraine crisis.

European nations went after to present a unified front, with over twenty-four member countries of the European Union (EU) totally agreeing to levy their primary set of punishments against the officials of the Russian Federation. Moreover, Berlin said it was stopping the certification process of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia – a worthwhile agreement long pursued by Russia but criticized by Washington for growing reliance of West on Russian energy.

In the meantime, the United States acted to cut-off Russia from Western finance, sanctioning two of Russian banks and preventing it from trading in its debt on Europe and U.S. markets. In addition, the actions of the government hit civilians in Russian hierarchical leadership, and two of banks considered particularly close to the Russian Armed Force and the Kremlin, with over eighty billion dollars in possessions. That contains freezing all of the assets in those banks under American jurisdiction.

According to the senior U.S. defense official, the American leader said he was relocating more American personnel to the three Baltic nations; however, he pronounced the troops’ deployment as virtuously defensive, proclaiming they’ve no plans of war with Russia. Washington is moving nearly 800 in infantry personnel and forty strike aircraft to Eastern Flank countries of NATO from other sites within the European region. Additionally, a contingent of advanced attack helicopters ‘AH-64 Apache’ and F-35 Lightning II strike fighter jets will also be moved.