Biden said US relations with Russia can be considered “completely severed”, and Putin – “outcast”

After the announcement by Moscow of a military operation in the Donbass, relations between the United States and Russia can be called “completely severed.” This was stated by US President Joe Biden at a briefing broadcast by the White House YouTube channel.

According to the American president, if Russia continues to go the way it is now with respect to Ukraine, there will be a complete break between the Russian Federation and the United States “right now.”

Earlier, Biden said that the United States imposed sanctions against 11 Russian legal entities, including a number of banks. We are talking, in particular, about the banks Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Otkritie, Novikombank, Sovcombank.

All US financial institutions were ordered to close correspondent accounts of the sanctioned Sberbank within 30 days. Shares of Sberbank meanwhile collapsed by more than 30%.

When Biden was asked why Russian President Vladimir Putin personally did not fall under sanctions, according to the Independent, he could not give a definite answer, but noted that the head of the Russian Federation had more ambitions than Ukraine. “He wants to restore the former Soviet Union. That’s what it’s all about,” Biden said.

The head of the United States also stressed that he did not intend to talk with Putin, and the Russian president himself “will soon become an international pariah.” “The states are not alone in responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine,” Biden stressed, adding that Putin’s decision to launch a “totally unjustified war with Ukraine” has made Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger.