(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) US Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Ukraine on Tuesday to show support for the new leadership there in the face of the Russian military intervention, the US State Department announced.
Kerry on Sunday called the rapid movement of Russian troops across the border into Ukraine's Crimea region unwarranted and outside international law and said Russia would suffer economic and political consequence
"He's going to lose on the international stage," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press," referring to Puti
"Russia is going to lose, the Russian people are going to lose, and he's going to lose all of the glow that came out of the Olympics, his $60 billion extravaganza." Economic sanctions and travel restrictions on individual Russians are one possibility, as is a US and European boycott of planning meetings this week for the upcoming summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations in Russia. The United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia are members of the G-
"There are visa bans, asset freezes, isolation with respect to trade, investment," Kerry said on CBS's "Face The Nation." "American businesses may well want to start thinking twice about whether they want to do business with a country that behaves like thi
These are serious implications." Kerry also said that the administration was ready to provide economic assistance "of a major sort" to Ukrain
US President Obama discussed Ukraine on Sunday with the leaders of Germany, Britain and Polan
Administration officials said the trade and economic penalties being considered would target Russia's prized economic position abroa
Actions against Russian banks are a possible avenue, one administration official said, while another said the potential actions would be significant and would leave Russia weaker.
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