CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera February 28, 2022 18:09:00
To their banks. this would allow them to be viewed as sanctions-proof. no longer when you go directly at the central bank and start to freeze assets across the globe. now when you want to figure out how rare this is to target a country's central bank. look at the countries targeted before. venezuela, iran, syria, all viewed as maligned actors. the difference here, no country, the scale of russia's economy, $1.7 trillion or the integration of russia's economy has ever been targ etsed with sanctions like this before. it just underscores the moment we're in right now and the scale of the response...