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President Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrent on high alert in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine. A U.S. defense official said Washington was trying to assess what Putin's announcement meant, but that it increased the danger from any miscalculation.
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In the strongest economic sanctions yet, the United States and Europe said on Saturday they would banish big Russian banks from the main global payments system SWIFT and announced other measures to limit Moscow's use of a $630 billion war chest. The EU also banned the Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik. A source told Reuters [the EU] would send 450 million euros ($507 million) of weaponry to Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian president's office said negotiations with Moscow without preconditions would be held at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Russian news agency Tass later on Sunday cited an unidentified source as saying the talks would start on Monday morning.