stage. yesterday the treasury department rolled out additional measures to crack down on the entities and individuals attempting toy vaid our unprecedented sanctions, not just ours but throughout the west. today i m announcing that the united states will ban russian-affiliated ships from our ports as they did in europe. that means no ship no ship that sails under the russian flag or that is owned or operated by a russian interest will be allowed to dock in a united states port or access our shores. none, none. this is yet another critical step we re taking in concert with our partners and european union, canada and united kingdom to deny russia the international economic system that they enjoyed in the past. we don t know how long this war will last. as we approach the two-month mark here is what we do know. putin failed to achieve his grand am bigss of the battlefield. after weeks of shelling kyiv,