⚡️ EU Foreign Minister: European sanctions to hit Russian gov't’s access to capital, financial markets

🤔 Former US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the current developments in Ukraine would never have happened during his administration.

“If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all. I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump administration what he is doing now, no way!” Trump said in a statement.

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👀 Borrell says Vladimir Putin is not on the list of those sanctioned by the EU

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📹: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba arrived at the US Defense Department on Tuesday afternoon to meet with defense officials amid the new developments involving his country.

Kuleba was greeted by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin outside the Defense Department.

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⚡️ Russia establishes diplomatic relations with DPR and LPR on 22 February – Foreign Ministry

Biden: Sanctions on Russia ‘Far Beyond Earlier Ones’

🚫Full blocking on two Russian banks (VEB and its military bank)

🚫Sanctions on Russian elites, family members

🚫Comprehensive sanctions on Russian sovereign debt

What else did he say:

✔️US to work with Germany to ensure Nord Stream 2 will not move

✔️US will continue to provide defensive aid to Ukraine

✔️Troops in Europe have been given authorization to make additional movements to the Baltic states

✔️No intention on fighting Russia

✔️Accused Putin’s speech of being a ‘twister rewriting’ of history

✔️US and allies remain open to diplomacy

✔️Accuses Russia's Monday recognition of LPR, DPR of being the 'beginning' of an invasion

🧐Rapper Cardi B weighs in on the Ukraine- Russia situation

❌ Borrell has deleted his scandalous tweet about “no diamonds in Antwerp.”

but its screenshot shall live online forever 💕

What do you think Putin thought about Biden’s speech?

Apparently not too much thought was given to the much anticipated speech. According to the Kremlin spokesman, the Russian president did not watch Biden’s speech due to a working meeting. Sorry, Joe 😎

February 22 is National Margarita Day

In case any of you were looking for a sign to turn this Tuesday into a Friday. You’re welcome 🥂

The US: open to diplomacy and does not want war with Russia

Also the US:

🇺🇸 orders infantry battalion task force of some 800 troops to head to the Baltic states from Italy

🇺🇸orders 20 H-64 helicopters to move from Germany to the Baltic States

🇺🇸orders 12 AH-64 helicopters to move from Greece to Poland

🇺🇸orders moving up to 8 F-35 jets to ‘several operating locations along NATO’s Eastern Flank’ from Germany

(Reportedly)

⚡ Zelensky: No need for total military mobilization in Ukraine.

❗ Dow plummets nearly 500 points after US announces 'first tranche' of sanctions against Russia

Senior US administration official says they want to reduce European ‘addiction’ to Russian gas

C'mon guys, stop getting cold ❄️

Here are some other things that were said:

☃️US working on a plan to ensure stable oil supplies

☃️None of the measures designed to disrupt the flow of energy to global markets

☃️Energy price rise is not due to Nord Stream 2 being halted

💰Current sanctions do not address the secondary market of Russian debt

💰No Russian financial banks are safe (Sberbank and VTB to face US sanctions if Russian ‘invasion’ proceeds)

💰Swift financial sanctions are not off the table

⚡ Blinken to make announcement Tuesday about meeting with Lavrov - Senior US Official

❗️🐻 Giant bear, known as ‘Hank the Tank’ and notorious for burglarizing about 40 houses in South Lake Tahoe, California, has hit another home over the weekend, the local police department said on Facebook.

The 500-pound bear carried out his most recent break-in by squeezing into the small window on the photo.

Photos from the South Lake Tahoe Police Department’s Facebook.

⚡️⚡️Blinken says it does not make sense any more to hold a meeting with Lavrov, scheduled for Thursday.