Tue Mar 1, 2022 – 11:10 pm ESTTue Mar 1, 2022 – 11:36 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – Joe Biden announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night that he will ban Russian airlines from entering U.S. airspace and target personal assets of Russian oligarchs, as tensions with Russia continue to rise after the invasion of Ukraine.
“The United States Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the Russian oligarchs,” Biden said. “We are joining with European allies to find and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private jets.”
“Tonight, I am announcing we will join our allies in closing off American airspace to all Russian flights,” he added.
Biden follows the European Union and several western countries, including Canada and the U.K., that have issued bans on Russian aircraft in recent days.
Biden also said Tuesday that he will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, but will “defend our allies” if Russian President Vladmir Putin “decides to keep moving west.”
“Our forces are not engaged and will not engage in the conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine,” he said. “Our forces are not going
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