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Contrary to the previous sanctions that were more a media show than real punishing, the new round of sanctions are more punishing.

So this time Putin says while he is still open to dialogue, he also says he will respond.

Putin is a man of his word.

After the Ukrainian shelling of a Russian town killed a man, he said that Russia would respond. And casually a high -flying (so out of the reach of the normal rebel hand held missiles) AN26 military aircraft got shot down.

So let’s wait for his response.