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Those sanctioned included:

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U.S. President Joe Biden

Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley

National Security Adviser Jacob Sullivan

CIA Director William Burns

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

Daleep Singh, Biden’s deputy national security adviser for international economics

United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power

President Biden’s son Hunter Biden

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo

Reta Jo Lewis, president and chairman of the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank

• The sanctions against the U.S. officials comes as the war in Ukraine has been going on for nearly a month and some experts believe that Russia is potentially running out of the steam that it needs to take over the country.

• “The Russians went after his [Fmr. Amb. to NATO Kurt Volker’s] training center in Yavoriv, outside the city of Lviv, partly to demonstrate that they could reach the lines of communication that bring supplies and support from Poland into Ukraine,” Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges said.

• “But also I think to maybe go after the logistics buildup that’s happening there. I don’t think we should overreact to this.”

• “The Russians, I think, are about ten days away from what is called the culminating point, when they just no longer have the ammunition nor the manpower to keep up their assault,” he said. “I think we keep pouring it on, and the Russians culminate.”