The United States on Thursday announced a new round of sanctions against two dozen Russian officials, including bankers, a neo-Nazi paramilitary group and a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, accused of coordinating the forced transfer of Ukrainian children, AFP reported.
“The United States will continue to take strong action to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes, atrocities and aggression” in Ukraine, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
The US blacklist includes about 22 officials and organizations, including people close to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has already been sanctioned, as well as high-ranking figures in the Russian banking system, including Volodymyr Komlev, who runs the Mir payment system.
At the same time, the Finance and Commerce Departments are banning all exports of computer materials to Russia and Belarus in order to hinder, according to the Treasury, efforts to rebuild the Russian army, which suffered heavy losses in the war against Ukraine that began last year. February.
A close relative of the Russian president, Maria Lvova-Belova, who heads the Russian president’s commission on children’s rights and who is accused of “coordinating the forced transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia,” was also sanctioned, the report says. said
They also concern family members of the leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, including his wives and daughters. Presented as an “assistant” of the Russian president, Ramzan Kadyrov “has amassed extraordinary wealth, owning a house in the Emirates, a private zoo, luxury cars and a large illegal fund,” the text says.
Finally, the US is targeting “Task Force Rusych,” a neo-Nazi paramilitary group linked to Wagner’s group that is accused of fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, particularly near the northeastern city of Kharkiv in 2022.
Wagner’s group is said to have ties to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is believed to be close to the Russian president.
The consequence of the sanctions is the freezing of any assets of the specified persons and restriction of their financial operations and generally access to international financial markets.
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