U.S. Department of the Treasury Building in Washington DCWASHINGTON. Feb. 23 The United States is ready to “press a button” to impose sanctions against the two largest banks in Russia due to the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine, said the US State Department spokesman Ned Price. He noted that we are talking about credit institutions with assets the size of at 750 billion dollars. «That's half of the entire Russian banking system,» Price added at the briefing. The State Department spokesman did not disclose the names of the banks. Earlier, the United States threatened to impose restrictions against Sberbank and VTB. The day before, after Russia recognized the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, the United States imposed restrictions against VEB and Promsvyazbank, along with dozens of their affiliates.
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