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Not long after Tuesday’s joint press conference between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announcing new sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, CNN’s Jake Tapper was joined on The Lead by the latter. There, Tapper called out the sanctions as weak, less than what Ukraine was asking for, and barely a deterrent to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Tapper jumped right to the chase by noting that Kuleba “called on the world to exert all of its economic might to punish Russia for actions in the past and actions in the future,” but pointed out that sanctions on “two banks and against some oligarchs” did not constitute “the world's economic might.”
“Is it fair to say you want more and you want more as soon as possible in terms of sanctions,” he asked of Ukraine’s top diplomat.
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