US imposes new sanctions on more than 120 people and entities for ties to Russia’s war
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The Treasury Department issued a new tranche of sanctions on Wednesday imposed against more than 120 people and entities for their connections to Russia and its war in Ukraine.
The announcement is the latest action taken by the Treasury and State departments meant to hamper Moscow in the war and to punish those who are supporting and funding it, including by assisting Russia’s attempts to evade existing sanctions.
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The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and his facilitation network. He has significant holdings in the metals and mining, telecommunications, and information technology sectors in Russia’s economy, and he’s known to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and the former president and prime minister of Russia, per the Treasury Department.
“More than one year into Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the effects of our globally coordinated sanctions have forced the Russian Federation to search for alternate routes to finance and fuel its war machine,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “In coordination with the United Kingdom, we are targeting sanctions evasion network supporting one of Russia’s wealthiest billionaires, Alisher Usmanov, who was sanctioned by the United States last year.”
The U.S. also imposed sanctions on companies based in China, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, all of which the Treasury Department alleged were in defiance of previous sanctions by assisting the Russian military-industrial complex.
Additionally, it is sanctioning two Russian entities that have supported the country’s efforts to deport and reeducate Ukrainian children in Russia: the All Russian Children’s and Youth Military Patriotic Public Movement Youth Army and the State Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Education of the Republic of Crimea Crimea Patriot Center.
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Russia has deported roughly 16,000 Ukrainian children, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on March 17, though he warned that number could be “much higher,” while the National Information Bureau reported about two weeks later that the number of Ukrainian children who were illegally deported was 19,514.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Putin and Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the commissioner for children’s rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, whom it said also shared responsibility for the deportations.