The United States on Monday targeted Russian military supply chains and sanctioned 14 individuals and 28 organizations it said were part of a transnational network acquiring technology to support Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine.
The US Treasury also targeted family members of Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov and people working in Suleiman’s network as financial facilitators.
“The United States will continue to disrupt Russia’s military supply chains and impose high costs on President Putin’s facilitators as well as anyone who supports Russia’s atrocities against its neighbor,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
The US Treasury has blacklisted Milandr, a Russian microelectronics company that Washington says is part of Moscow’s military research and development structure. It also sanctioned three companies affiliated with the company and several company executives.
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned major military industrial companies in Russia, and the Department of Commerce cut exports of U.S.-made components and U.S. technologies used in some Russian military equipment.
Russia has managed to get UAVs from Iran used to attack cities and electrical infrastructure in Ukraine. Iranian military establishments and industries are already under heavy US sanctions due to Tehran’s nuclear development program.
source: Noticias
