Russia has banned 61 US officials and top defense and media executives from entering the country by “blocking it,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday. This list now includes US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Also on the list are the heads of major defense companies, media platforms, rating agencies, and aircraft and shipbuilding companies, as well as individual State Department officials.
The ministry said the sanctions were a response to “the ever-expanding US sanctions against Russian political and public figures, as well as representatives of domestic companies.”
In addition to Yellen, sanctions were also imposed on trade representative Katherine Tai and head of the Sanctions Coordination Office, James O’Brien.
Russia’s New Attacks
In recent days, Russia has reintensified its attacks in eastern Ukraine and carried out new bombings in Kiev. Following the new attacks, the US warned that Moscow wanted to ‘annex’ the separatist regions in the east.
Earlier this month, Biden announced that he would send “more advanced” missiles to help Ukraine confront the Russian invasion.
In an editorial in the newspaper New York Times Under the headline “What America will and will not do in Ukraine,” the president detailed American policy towards the conflict and affirmed that his goal is to “see an independent, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine, has the means to discourage and defend against further aggression.” .
The word drew criticism from Moscow, but according to Antony Blinken, the head of US diplomacy, Ukraine assured the United States that it would not use the new missile systems that Washington had promised to attack Russian soil.
source: Noticias
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