Putin Likens Sanctions to a ‘Declaration of War’
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 6, 2022
ODESSA, Ukraine — President Vladimir V. Putin warned on Saturday that crippling economic sanctions imposed by the West were “akin to a declaration of war,” as the Russian military pummeled civilian targets and continued shelling near the first protected routes intended to allow besieged Ukrainians to flee, apparently violating a cease-fire that had been agreed to only hours earlier.
As fighting raged across Ukraine, Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett, on Saturday became the first international leader to meet with Mr. Putin in Moscow since the start of the . . .
