Obama set to ‘further isolate' Russia

US President Barack Obama is determined that the United States must continue its efforts to isolate Russia, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, Sputnik News reported.

“I can tell you that the President’s view continues to be that this administration needs to be continually assessing what our strategy is to further isolate the Putin regime in Russia to convince them to re-evaluate their strategy in Ukraine,” Earnest told reporters Monday.

The United States’ Russia policy has so far been successful, according to the White House spokesman.

In addition to “uniting the international community around this principle of respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other countries”, the US strategy has helped devalue the Rouble and cause debt evaluators to downgrade Russia’s securities, Earnest stated.