them off from the u.s. financial system. and, restrict u.s. investors from dealing with a russian banks and companies critical to the russian economy. the sanctions also freeze all u.s. assets held by russians with close ties to vladimir putin and the fall leaves putin has close ties with. the new sanctions also target russia s military abilities, their activity with key products, and they re designed to block russia s ability to acquire technology essential to defense, aviation, and other critical sections. coming off half of russia s high tech imports, as the washington report quotes, no country as large as russia, with an economy large as russia, ranked 12, according to the international monday fund, has been hit with such massive international sanctions. russia has not yet been removed from swift, a global financial system. present biden said that option
about that because he did not make any announcements on that front. always an option. do you believe the world is going to interpret his moves as going far enough to stop putin? we will see how the world reacts. the president saying that the sanctions today exceed swift, taking rush out of that. we will see if that is accurate or not. they sanction specifically deal with russian banks. they deal with oligarchs and their family members. that is significant. there have been republicans like lindsey graham and others who have been calling for the specific sanctions. they are in the batch. a number of different efforts, high tech imports that affect russia s space agency. that is a national moment of pride. he said every asset they have in america will be frozen. interesting that he was asked about have you talked to china in an effort to isolate russia? and he said he is not prepared to comment on that as of yet.
0 security council and participated in a virtual g7 leadership meeting to talk about all that is going on. we expect to hear from the president on what he calls and unprovoked ms. by russia. more than 90 minutes later than what he was saying. so it will be interesting. what will he say, and will he take questions? keep it here on fox. sandra: fox news alert as war breaks out in ukraine after russia launches a full-scale attack, hitting cities and military bases with more than 100 ballistic missiles. large explosions could be heard across the country has russian forces moved in from three science. at least 40 ukrainian soldiers were reportedly killed so far, and a number of casualties is expected to rise. john: world leaders are ready to respond to hammer moscow. covering this from all of the angles with our expert lineup. bret baier, general jack keane, stephen moore, robert wolf, daniel hoffman, brett bruen will all join us, coming up. sandra: and that s where we began this hour