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    In emergency meetings, Biden, NATO allies bolster response to Russia over Ukraine war

    by Eli Stokols and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Mar 24, 2022 5 minutes
    U.S. President Joe Biden listens as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a North Atlantic Council meeting during an extraordinary summit at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on March 24, 2022.

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and leaders of NATO allies agreed to double the organization’s troop presence in Eastern Europe during a flurry of wartime summitry Thursday in Brussels, an effort to keep the alliance united in its effort to isolate and punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

    The White House also announced new sanctions against more than 400 Russian elites, Duma lawmakers and defense companies — one more turn of the screw in the West’s economic pressure campaign against Moscow. The Group of 7 leading industrialized nations, which joined in the new sanctions, disclosed initiatives aimed at cracking down on efforts by Russia to evade sanctions and preventing its central bank from using gold reserves to shore up the country’s sagging economy.

    The U.S. also plans to accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees into the country and to donate $1 billion to help European

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