United States of America New sanctions against Moscow in response to the war in Ukraine, including more 30 institutions and 13 people, including people from the inner circle of the Kremlinlike the old gymnast Alina KabaevaShe is the one that many portray as the lover of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The Treasury Department will use every means at our disposal to ensure that the Russian elite and those who support the Kremlin are held accountable for their accomplices in a war that has claimed countless lives,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
new sanctions Extended to Andrei Guryev, founder and former vice president of Russia’s leading chemical company PhosAgro. The businessman’s Cayman Islands-flagged yacht, ‘Alpha Nero’ worth $120 million, is on the new list as blocked property. Guryev has already been sanctioned by the UK.
Among other names, Viktor Rashnikov, the majority shareholder of MMK, one of the world’s largest steel producers, as well as two subsidiaries. This businessman has previously been sanctioned by Australia, Canada, the EU, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
In addition, among the elite closest to Putin, Alina Kabaeva, Athens 2004 Olympic champion and current head of the National Media Group; and Natalia Valerievna Popova, first deputy director of the Innopraktika Institute for Non-State Development, a Russia-based technology company.
The Biden Administration stated that the sanctions extended to the United States. financial institution Joint Stock Company Promising Industrial and Infrastructure Technologies “to try to circumvent previous sanctions imposed on the Russian Direct Investment Fund”.
Washington’s State Department adds to this list boss Dimitri Aleksandrovich Pumpianskii, former head of OAO TMK, a world-class Russian steel pipe producer; Andrei Igorevich Melnichenko, Chairman of the Mining Commission of the Board of Directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and businessman Alexander Anatolevich Ponomarenko.
In addition, determined by the Directorate 24 Russian organizations related to defense and technologyalso “four persons and one organization operating illegitimately on the territory of Ukraine in cooperation with Russia.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is taking action to impose visa restrictions on individuals in connection with Russia’s war in Ukraine. This includes 893 Russian Federation officials, such as members of the Federation Council and military members who threaten or violate the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of the Russian Federation. including Ukraine,” he said.
As reported by the United States, the list includes 31 foreign government officials who acted to “support Russia’s claim that Ukraine has annexed the Crimea region” and thus “threatened or violated Ukraine’s sovereignty”.
Source: Informacion
