Germany Upends Policy to Hit Russia on SWIFT, Ship Ukraine Arms

Germany upended years of policy and agreed to supply weapons to Kyiv and look into ways to shut out Russia from the SWIFT financial messaging system, underlining the outrage in Berlin over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The German government said in a statement Saturday that it has agreed to the supply of 400 German-made rocket propelled grenades to Ukraine via the Netherlands, along with 14 armored personnel carriers. It will also supply 10,000 tonnes of fuel via Poland. Further supplies to Ukraine are currently being considered, it said. NN: the longer it takes for the EU NATO and the US to belly up to the bar the more costly this becomes.. And at some point NATO will figure out all the former Soviet states are at risk.