Moscow is setting up bank branches to establish the ruble as the default currency and forcing residents to apply for Russian citizenship, the White House said.
Moscow is "is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014," an NSC official said.
Russia is forming plans to annex more parts of Ukraine, repeating a playbook it used in the 2014 annexation of Crimea to seize territory, the White House said Tuesday.
