The sanctions, issued by the Treasury and Foreign Office, have targeted the luxury assets of several key Russian elites – including several boats and aircraft owned by Putin’s allies – and “luxury property management and service companies” working to circumvent US sanctions. According to a White House report. The Commerce Department has also announced new restrictions on Russia’s ability to protect military technology.
Sanctions target several prominent Russian elites and government officials, including Russian businessman Gad Nisanov, whom Foreign Secretary Anthony Blinken calls “one of Europe’s richest and a close ally of many Russian officials” and a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. .
The latest sanctions are designed to “prevent evasion, improve enforcement, increase pressure on Putin and his aides and tighten our sanctions,” the White House said in a statement.
“President Putin’s war against Ukraine is an attack on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, as enshrined in the UN Charter. The United States will continue to support the people of Ukraine, “said Blingen, chief of The Christian Science Monitor’s Washington bureau.
The Treasury Department’s Foreign Assets Control Office has identified two boats, “Graceful flagged by Russia and Olympia flagged by the Cayman Islands,” as “blocked property, of which President Vladimir Putin is interested.”
Putin, according to the Treasury, has made “numerous trips” on boats, as he did last year. It also appointed several management companies and other boat-related owners, as well as other boat brokerages associated with Putin.
The sanctions targeted two Russian-owned boats, Shellest and Nega.
“Shelley travels from time to time to the beach where President Putin’s infamous Black Sea Palace is located, and President Putin uses Nega to travel to the north of Russia,” the Treasury Department said.
Thursday’s sanctions targeted Putin’s “close friend” Sergei Pavlovich Roldin, according to the Treasury, “the godfather to one of Putin’s daughters” and Roldin’s wife, Elena Urievna Mirtova. Roldin’s art director at the St. Petersburg Music House and Mirtova is a soprano opera singer.
The administration also allowed the lineup of other boats and aircraft owned by Putin’s allies.
Five other Russian government officials are on the Treasury Department’s sanctions list, including Yuri Sliuser, chairman of the Russian state – owned airline, Vitaly Savlyev, Minister of Transport, Maxim Reshentnikov, and Irek Enrovich Faizulin, Minister of Economic Development. , Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Yurevich Grigorenko,
The State Department has also imposed sanctions on six additional officials or companies, including God Nisanov, who is said to be “one of the richest real estate investors and one of Europe’s richest”. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was among those allowed. The Chevrolet Group is a joint venture with Alexei Mortashov, its chairman, and a multi-billion dollar investment firm in Russia that owns shares and subsidiaries in the fields of metallurgy, engineering, mining, tourism, banking, technology, media and finance. Three members of his family.
Sanctions following the rocket announcement
Biden announced in April that “major war crimes” were being committed in Ukraine after the White House announced new sanctions on Russia’s largest financial institutions and a number of individuals linked to the Kremlin, including the two – year – old daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden cited horrific images from the Ukrainian city of Pucha, which is occupied by Russian forces, and said the United States would continue to increase pressure on Putin and isolate Russia from the rest of the world.
Since Russia’s unprovoked aggression on Ukraine began in February, the United States and its allies have taken a wide range of measures aimed at punishing Moscow.
The United States and several other countries have banned Russian flights from US airspace and expelled some Russian banks from SWIFT, the high-security network that connects thousands of financial institutions around the world. The United States has banned US dollar transactions with the Russian central bank and has completely blocked Russian direct investment funds, enforced technology embargoes and imposed sanctions on Russian banks and billionaires and their families close to the Kremlin.
Biden has been in close consultation with other world leaders and is seeking to promote unity among Western allies with a concerted response. In March, the US president traveled to Europe to meet with world leaders and attend an emergency NATO summit to discuss Russia’s invasion.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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