The US has expanded sanctions against Russia: the new list includes 400 individuals and legal entities from both russia and other countries. This was reported by Komersant ukrainskyi
with reference to the The US Treasury Department OF THE UNITED STATES.
It is known that all of the sanctioned entities are in one way or another related to the Russian fuel and energy and metallurgical sectors.
The sanctioned companies also include various firms engaged in arms supplies to Russia, proxy firms that circumvent sanctions, and various mining companies that produce critical raw materials for the Russian military machine.
The sanctions also target numerous intermediaries from the UAE, Hong Kong, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China that have been supplying microelectronics to Russia in a bid to circumvent the sanctions.
The US is also tightening export controls to Russia and Belarus and restricting access to software for computer numerical control machines for companies in these countries.
Companies on the sanctions list:
- Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works;
- Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant;
- Financial Technology Centre (a software holding company)
- MTS-Red;
- diasoft.
In addition, the United States imposed sanctions on the son of Russian Defence Minister Pavel Belousov, who owns Claire & Clarté. It also came under US sanctions.