The US Treasury Department, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov announced the implementation of sanctions. TASS By referring to the agency.
The presidential envoy of the North Caucasus Federal District, Yuri Chaika, and the head of the Russian presidential administration, Anton Vaino, were also subjected to restrictive measures.
Washington added a number of other Russian officials to its sanctions list.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The president described the purpose of the operation as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime”. The decision to run the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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