The United States announced that it would ban the Russian central bank from trading in dollars.

The United States has taken measures to prohibit the Russian central bank from conducting any dollar transactions and completely stop Russian direct investment funds to prevent Russia from mitigating the impact of sanctions through "emergency funds" or "emergency savings accounts". During Russia's military operations in Ukraine, this will make it impossible for Russia to use foreign exchange reserves to buffer the collapse of the ruble, and it will also be impossible to use US dollar funds.