Ukraine-Russia, Biden signs an end to investments in the Donbass

Ukraine-Russia crisis, US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order prohibiting new investment, trade and financing by US citizens in or from the so-called republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. This was announced by the White House, according to which this order will also give the authority to “impose sanctions on any person determined to operate in those areas of Ukraine”. The note specifies that “these measures are outdated and will be an addition to the swift and severe economic measures that we are preparing in coordination with allies and partners if Russia invades Ukraine”. Read also In the meantime, a telephone conversation is underway between the president of the United States, the French president Emmanuel Macron and the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, announces the White House, according to which the call began at 21.17 Italian time.