Western nations moving swiftly to sanction Russia as cold war warms-up

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a threatening speech in the New York session which has weighed on risk and encouraged a swift response from the West with harsh new sanctions being implemented. 

Putin has signed a separatist recognition decree over eastern Ukraine regions and the decrees on recognizing the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics also ordered the Russian armed forces to go into separatist territory on peacekeeping missions. 

This has sparked retaliation from the US, UK, EU and UN and the Twitter feeds are quoting some key figures on the international stage in this regard:

• UN chief Guterres considers Russia's eastern Ukraine recognition a 'violation of territorial integrity, sovereignty of Ukraine, inconsistent with UN charter.
• UK govt says sanctions expected to go further if invasion happens, so they won’t go as far as full package prepared, The Guardian.
• UK govt confirms it will be announcing Russia sanctions tomorrow in response to Putin's declaration, The Guardian.
• White House official says Biden has started the call with France's Macron and Germany's Scholz.
• German government spokesman: Chancellor Scholz agreed with macron and Biden that Putin's decision won't go unanswered.