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Biden: Cutting Russia off SWIFT "always an option” but not right now.

by The Kyiv Independent news desk February 24, 2022 9:26 PM 1 min read
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U.S. President Joe Biden said that the move, which would be the most extreme step in the cards of the West, is “not the position that Europe wishes to take.” Biden claimed that the package of sanctions on Russian banks will bring even more consequences to Moscow than cutting Russia off SWIFT.

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