U.S. Ready to Hit Putin’s Inner Circle with Sanctions

“The U.S. has drawn up sanctions targeting Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and its ties to the west as Washington broadens the list of financial penalties it is ready to impose if Russia invades Ukraine,” the Financial Times reports.

Said one senior administration official: “The individuals we have identified are in or near the inner circles of the Kremlin and play a role in government decision making or are at a minimum complicit in the Kremlin’s destabilizing behavior.”