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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

US Senate panel close to approving ‘mother of all sanctions’ against Russia

Ukrainian servicemen seen along the frontline outside of Svitlodarsk, Ukraine on Sunday.
Ukrainian servicemen seen along the frontline outside of Svitlodarsk, Ukraine, on Sunday. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The leaders of the Senate foreign relations committee said on Sunday they were on the verge of approving “the mother of all sanctions” against Vladimir Putin, warning there would be no appeasement as the Russian president contemplates an invasion of Ukraine.

“We cannot have a Munich moment again,” the panel’s Democratic chair, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, told CNN’s State of the Union, referring to the 1938 agreement by which allies ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, believing it would stave off war.

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