The United States announced Thursday that it is ready to “host up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia's aggression,” while the president of the US country, Joe Biden, participates in the NATO meeting in Brussels.
Washington will also unlock “more than 1 billion in additional funding” to strengthen humanitarian aid in Ukraine and also to address the “serious impacts” of the conflict in other parts of the world, such as “the clear increase in food insecurity”, according to the same source.
Washington's priority will be to welcome those Ukrainians “who have relatives in the United States,” explained an official US source when making the announcement during Biden's visit to Brussels, who is participating in two NATO, G7 and European Union (EU) summits on Thursday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken cited reports of indiscriminate attacks on Ukrainian civilians to conclude that Russian forces had committed war crimes. The measure will formalize investigations into the alleged atrocities.
In addition, Washington announced sanctions against the Duma (lower house of the Russian Parliament) and against 400 figures and companies close to the president, Vladimir Putin, including 328 legislators and 48 Russian defense “large public companies”.
Sanctions are financial against politicians, oligarchs and the Russian defense industry, as a retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
These measures, which involve freezing assets in the United States, concern 328 Duma deputies, as well as the institution itself, according to a White House statement.
The decision was made in coordination with US allies in the European Union and the G7.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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