The US Treasury Department has announced a new package of sanctions against Russia – it includes 29 individuals and more than 250 legal entities from several countries, the Associated Press reports. The agency specified that the measures affected those whom Washington suspects of involvement in the Russian military-industrial complex, as well as in helping Moscow circumvent sanctions.
The United States has imposed new anti-Russian sanctions against hundreds of individuals and legal entities, the Associated Press reports citing documentation released by the US Treasury Department.
As specified in the department, these measures affected those who are suspected in Washington of involvement in the Russian military-industrial complex, as well as in helping Moscow to find workarounds for the previously imposed sanctions. The Finance Ministry imposed sanctions on companies from China, Azerbaijan, Belgium, UAE, Slovakia and Turkey for helping to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions.
In particular, importers of cotton pulp and nitrocellulose, which are used to make gunpowder, rocket fuel and other explosives, Russian government agencies and individuals associated with chemical and biological weapons programmes, as well as companies associated with Russian natural gas construction projects, have fallen under the new sanctions.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the actions would “further undermine and weaken Russia’s military efforts by targeting its military-industrial base and sanctions evasion networks that help supply it.”
However, the Associated Press reminds us that Russia calls Western sanctions against the country “illegal” and “ineffective.”
