Sanctions are being imposed after the world saw the effects of the Russian occupation of Bucha.
US President Joe Biden's administration imposes new sanctions against Russian banking institutions and the daughters of the aggressor country's president, Vladimir Putin, reports CNN .
“We are imposing completely blocking sanctions on Russia's largest banks, Sberbank and Alfa Bank,” a senior administration official told reporters at a briefing.
Sberbank owns almost one-third of all assets in Russia's banking sector, the official said, adding that the United States has now completely blocked “more than two-thirds of Russia's banking sector.”
The administration is also imposing full blocking sanctions on a new group of Russian elites and their families, including Putin's adult daughters Maria Putin and Kateryna Tikhonova, the wife and daughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and members of Russia's Security Council, including the former president and prime minister. Russia 's Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. According to a senior official, the United States has already imposed sanctions on more than 140 Russian oligarchs and their families, as well as more than 400 Russian government officials.
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In addition, the US in cooperation with the G7 and the EU announce ban on new investments in Russia. The decree must be signed by President Biden.
The United States will also apply full blockade sanctions on Russia's major major state-owned enterprises, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. It is noted that the US Treasury Department has blocked the payment of Russia's debt in dollars stored in US banks.
Yesterday, April 5, in connection with a full-scale war and war crimes committed by the Russian military, another package of sanctions against Russia has been announced by the EU . Trade, transport and energy affected the aggressor country.
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