The Treasury Department blocked Russia from using dollars held at U.S. banks to service its debt, increasing the odds of Moscow defaulting on its sovereign financial obligations.
The move, which came Monday night, is intended to deplete the Kremlin’s resources for its bloody invasion of Ukraine and cut Russia off from its over $600 million reserves in U.S. banks that it was previously allowed to use to service its international debt, according to the Treasury.
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