23.02.2023
The targets will be the banking sector, the defense and technology industry and actors in third countries trying to “evade” previous sanctions, a White House spokesman said.
The US government will announce new “wide-ranging” sanctions once morest Russia on Friday, a year following the US leader Vladimir Putin order the invasion of Ukraine, reported this Thursday (02.23.2023) the White House. President Joe Biden will meet virtually with the leaders of the G7 and their Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyoccasion in which he will report the sanctions.
The objective of these is to limit the war machine of the Russians. “The United States will implement wide-ranging sanctions once morest key sectors that generate income for Putin,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told a press conference. In addition, it will affect the banking system, the defense and technology industry and other actors in third countries that try to “evade sanctions”.
The United States will also announce a new aid package, which will include financial, security and energy support, Jean-Pierre added. The spokeswoman also appreciated the role that the G7 has played in offering support to Ukraine. “It has become the epicenter of our united and powerful response to Russia,” she explained.
“Unwavering support”
At the meeting, the leaders of the world’s most industrialized powers will discuss “how to continue to support Ukraine” and make sure that the country has everything it needs to defend itself, and formulas to increase pressure on Russia “and all those who have allowed this aggression.”
This Thursday, the G7 economy and finance ministers approved a financial aid package for Ukraine of 39,000 million dollars for 2023, compared to 19,800 million last year, so that it can assume its payments. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, members of the G7 and which accumulate more than half of the world’s wealth, thus show their “unwavering support for Ukraine,” said the Japanese head of that portfolio. , Shunichi Suzuki.
DZC (EFE, AFP, Archyde.com)
