US presidential spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the United States also considers that if Russian forces, which have been invading Ukraine since dawn on Thursday, tried to target Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it would be a “terrible act.”
Psaki said that the travel ban to the United States would be “part” of the sanctions that the United States decided to impose on the Russian president and his foreign minister.
She added, “It is a normal element” in the sanctions against foreign figures, reiterating that the details of these historical sanctions against the Russian president will be revealed at a later time.
For her part, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry considered that the imposition of Western sanctions on the Russian president and his foreign minister is an indication of the “impotence” of the Westerners.
“The sanctions against the president and the foreign minister of the country are an example and proof of the absolute impotence of your foreign policy,” Maria Zakharova told Russian television, addressing Western countries.