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Tag Team: White House Joins With Congress to Take Aim at Ukraine

thecable.foreignpolicy.com

“A State Department official said that the administration hasn’t determined whether to implement the sanctions. Still, the fact that punitive measures are even under consideration highlights the administration’s growing disapproval of the violence spreading throughout the Ukraine — and its potential willingness to act.

“It’s a shot across the bow to those Ukrainian officials who we believe are responsible for the violence,” said a congressional aide recently briefed by the State Department, one of the two government agencies that would be involved in any sanctions work.

“Formally laying the groundwork for sanctions is no small task given the amount of paperwork involved in identifying the individuals responsible for the fighting and calculating and locating their assets, the aide said. Actually imposing the measures would be even tougher because it would require action both by the State Department, which would be charged with putting travel bans on key Ukrainian officials, and the Treasury Department, which would handle the financial piece. “