And the EU and the G7 will announce an initiative that will prevent the aggressor from circumventing the sanctions. This will affect the powers of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The United States will impose new anti-Russian sanctions today, affecting 300 State Duma deputies and 40 Russian defense companies. This, citing the words of administration official Joe Biden, reports CNN.
According to media reports, the European Union and the G7 countries will also announce an initiative aimed at countering Russia bypassing existing sanctions. As a result, the powers of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to allocate international reserves will be partially limited.
“The general message is that we have taken historic steps in imposing costs on Russia, now let's make sure that our actions are fully coordinated and we get the most out of the measures we have taken,” the official said.
A spokesman for the Biden administration also commented on Friday's announcement of a joint energy strategy: “This is something we have been working on for some time, and I think it will be a significant step forward in accelerating Europe's diversification from Russian gas.”
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It will be recalled that a new package of sanctions against Russia was imposed by Great Britain today. In total, the Kingdom has imposed more than 1,000 restrictions on the aggressor to stop supporting Putin's “military machine.”
Earlier in their article for The Hill, US national security experts Keith Alexander and Jamil Jaffer wrote that no matter how strong the economic sanctions against Russia are, they will not be able to stop the war in the near future. The only way, in their opinion, to cease fire is to help Ukraine close the skies .
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