It is also prohibited to make new investments in the Russian Federation by Americans wherever they are.
Courtesy | The sanctions include the complete blockade of Russia’s largest financial institution, Sberbank.
The United States announced on Wednesday a new package of sanctions against the government of Vladimir Putin, in response to the massacre discovered in Bucha after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
“The United States is announcing devastating economic measures to ban new investment in Russia and impose the most severe financial sanctions on Russia’s largest bank and several of its most critical state-owned companies and on Russian government officials and their family members,” he announced. the White House in a community.
The sanctions include a complete blockade of Russia’s largest financial institution, Sberbank, and Russia’s largest private bank, Alfa Bank, freezing any of Sberbank’s and Alfa Bank’s assets that are in contact with the US financial system. and prohibiting US persons from doing business with them.
It is also prohibited to make new investments in the Russian Federation by Americans wherever they are.
In addition, a total blockade is applied to the main critical Russian state companies, whose list will be announced this Thursday by the Treasury Department.
And one of the blows that will surely hurt Putin the most is the sanction against his adult children. In addition, the wife and daughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were sanctioned.
Members of the Russian Security Council, including former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, were also sanctioned.
“These individuals have enriched themselves at the expense of the Russian people. Some of them are responsible for providing the necessary support to prop up Putin’s war against Ukraine. This action isolates them from the US financial system and freezes any assets they have in the United States,” the White House said.
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