The United States of America (USA) announced a new series of sanctions against the Russian "war machine" today, when the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is in Washington, where he is asking for the continuation of American aid to his country.
The sanctions apply to around 150 individuals and legal entities suspected of supplying or financing the Russian military industry during the war in Ukraine and help evade sanctions imposed since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
"The Kremlin has gradually turned Russia into a war economy, into Putin's war machine that cannot survive on domestic production alone," US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. Jelen assessed that American sanctions tighten the ring around suppliers and third countries that supply Russia with the goods it desperately needs to develop and maintain its military-industrial complex.
The US State Department announced today in a separate statement that it is introducing sanctions against 100 individuals and legal entities.
Washington is sanctioning individuals and legal entities in China, Russia, Hong Kong and Pakistan "involved in the production and supply of Chinese weapons and technology," the US Treasury Department said.
Chinese citizen Hu Xiaosun and his military company "Jarvis HK Co" and a network of associates were specifically mentioned.
Sanctions include freezing assets that may be owned by persons and firms targeted by US sanctions, as well as prohibiting any US person or firm from doing business with sanctioned persons, under the threat of being sanctioned themselves.
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