How the West could use Swift finance system to punish Russia for Ukraine attack

By Agence France-Presse

An exclusion from Swift, a very discreet but important cog in the machinery of international finance, is one of the most disruptive of the possible sanctions that the West could deploy against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Thursday for such a move after Russian forces invaded his country, as Western powers consider imposing additional sanctions on Moscow.The White House has pointedly refused in recent weeks to exclude the possibility of barring…

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