Brussels – AFP
On Thursday, the United States announced new financial sanctions once morest Russia targeting the political world, powerful businessmen and the defense industry, in response to the military operation in Ukraine.
And a White House statement said that these measures, which provide in particular the freezing of assets in the United States, include 328 deputies in the Duma, as well as the Russian House of Representatives, and 48 major public companies in the defense sector.
The statement indicated that they are sanctions of a total ban on more than 400 people and entities, including the State Duma and its members, additional members of the Russian elite and Russian defense companies that fuel Putin’s war machine.
In a separate statement, the US Treasury indicated that the sanctions specifically target the “Tactical Weapons Corporation”, a Russian state defense conglomerate that currently deploys its weapons in Russia.
The leaders of the Group of Seven and the European Union also announced a coordinated reinforcement of their response in order to prevent sanctions targets from avoiding them.
It also wants to impose sanctions on any deal that includes Russian gold reserves to avoid Moscow bypassing the financial isolation measures taken by the Westerners once morest it.
“The United States and its allies strike to the core Russia’s ability to finance and carry out its war and atrocities once morest Ukraine,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
The British government had announced a new series of sanctions targeting 59 Russian individuals and companies and six Belarusian entities.