Biden Announces New Sanctions on Russia, Expulsion of 10 Diplomats, in Retaliation for Hacking and Election Interference

The White House is announcing the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and announcing a new round of sanctions against Russia. From a report: The moves are in response to interference in last year's presidential election as well as the hacking last year of federal government agencies. The U.S. for the first time explicitly linked that intrusion to a Russian intelligence service. The sanctions, foreshadowed for weeks by the administration, represents the first retaliatory action announced against the Kremlin for last year's hack, familiarly known as the SolarWinds breach. In that intrusion, Russian hackers are believed to have infected widely used software with malicious code, enabling them to access the networks of at least nine agencies in what U.S. officials believe was an intelligence gathering operation aimed at mining government secrets.

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