https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/21/biden-to-impose-new-sanctions-over-putins-ukraine-moves/ > President Joe Biden plans to impose new sanctions on trade and financing in the two pro-Moscow territories that President Vladimir Putin decided to recognize as independent on Monday. > In a statement, the White House said Biden would sign an executive order that would “prohibit new investment, trade, and financing by U.S. persons to, from, or in the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine.”