The U.S. Treasury has halted dollar debt payments from Russian government accounts at U.S. banks, increasing pressure on Moscow to find alternative funding sources to pay bond investors. The move is designed to force Russia into choosing among three unappealing options — draining dollar reserves held in its own country, spending new revenue, or going into default, said a spokesperson for the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control who discussed details of the decision on condition of anonymity. The change comes as a payment on the country’s sovereign debt was due Monday and is intended to further ratchet up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine. It follows accusations over the weekend that Russian troops massacred civilians in Bucha and other Ukrainian towns. A carve-out in U.S. policies has allowed overseas and U.S. investors […]