The US government has sanctioned almost 400 more individuals and companies in Russia and around the world, including Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov’s son and his wife.
Washington and its allies have placed over 22,000 sanctions on Russia since 2014, when Moscow responded to the US-backed coup in Kiev by welcoming Crimea’s reunification.
Russia has called the blacklist illegitimate and responded with travel bans for Western officials and activists.
Departments of State and Treasury announced the measure on Friday, on the eve of Ukraine’s independence day, to signal Washington’s ongoing support to Kiev in the conflict with Moscow.
The sanctions also extended to entities and individuals in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Commenting on the move, Russia’s Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said that the sanctions are fruitless and continue to harm US domestic consumers, as well as America’s partners in third countries.
In keeping with the practice of sanctioning family members of Russian officials, the USA has blacklisted Pavel Belousov and his wife Yevgenya, as well as a consulting company in their ownership. Belousov’s father Andrey became the Russian defense minister in May, 2024.
According to the Treasury, there are “almost a dozen distinct networks” consisting of over 100 individuals and entities across 16 jurisdictions, including China, Switzerland, Türkiye, and the United Arab Emirates.
Notably, 18 companies based in Hong Kong have been accused of ties to the Russian military industry.
Treasury and State also warned financial institutions in other countries to be cautious about any dealings with overseas branches or subsidiaries of Russian financial institutions, including those that have not yet been sanctioned.
Friday’s designations mean that any property or interests in property of the listed individuals, directly or indirectly, have been blocked and must be reported to the government.
Any transactions between US citizens, or foreign nationals within the USA are forbidden.
The measures are aimed at closing workarounds that Moscow is said to be using to circumvent the existing sanctions.
The Treasury Department has claimed that the Russian authorities are utilizing vague schemes to pay for dual-use goods that are allegedly imported from the third states.
The USA and its allies have introduced a record number of restrictions against Moscow since 2014, when Crimea rejoined Russia and a conflict between Ukraine and the Donbass republics broke out as the result of a Western-backed coup in Kiev.
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Russia is fully independent of any and all sanctions used against it. Sanctions against Russia are killing the US economy more so now than ever before. The US government is sanctioning itself to death.
“warned that it has a range of tools” – ah, yes, a good old US of A… Threats, bullying, intimidation… Rinse, repeat… “You are going to do as we tell you, see? ‘Cause if you don’t, you will be swimming with the fishes, capeesh?” USA – a land of thugs, crooks, swindlers and looters… Always was, is and will be.
You have them down to pat NFI they never got by the cowboys and Indians stage nor the school bully stage just a big version of the Mafia.
This has to backfire because all banks deal with each other and you screw some banks over and be sure it will effect the US banks in a big way to. People in all country’s deposit money shares you name it and a lot of those are in US banks so remove them and all hell could break out.
These sanctions are having the opposite effect as the one intended, people are escaping from the dollar and US assets, and even physically leaving western jurisdictions. The “democratic” facade is crumbling and the US is revealing its true, ugly, satanic face