West Palm Beach, FL – Today, Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-21) released the following statement in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and President Biden’s announcement that the United States would join the European Union and the United Kingdom in establishing new financial sanctions on Russia.

“Vladimir Putin’s hostility in Ukraine is not only a threat to the sovereignty and security of the Ukrainian people, but to all those who want to live in a world where free and democratic nations are not threatened by foreign aggression,” said Rep. Frankel. “In 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up the world’s third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S., UK, and Russia. Putin trampled on that agreement in 2014 when he annexed Crimea and provoked a separatist war in Eastern Ukraine, and is now being even more brazen with his latest incursion. The Biden Administration is right to work in lockstep with our NATO allies to levy targeted financial sanctions against Russia and to insist that more consequences will follow if Putin does not deescalate his military aggression.”

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