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Responding to the invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden pledged on Thursday to freeze all Russian assets held in the United States, starve the Russian economy of vital Western technologies and pile on sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs who back him. In a multipronged assault that started shortly before dawn, Russian forces launched more than 100 missiles at targets that included airfields and ammunition depots across the nation of 44 million people. “Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war and now he and his country will bear the consequences,” Biden said in his first...
