The US launches more than 200 new sanctions against the Russian military industry and its foreign collaborators

MADRID 30 Oct. () –

The United States Government has imposed new sanctions on more than 275 people and entities related to the Russian defense industry, many of them from other countries, as well as for collaborating with Moscow in the evasion of previous restrictions imposed to reduce its military capacity. in Ukraine.

The United States Treasury Department reported this Wednesday that sanctions have fallen on companies and individuals from fifteen countries, including China, Switzerland, Thailand and Turkey, as well as against “domestic producers of key supplies and other materials for Russia’s military industry.

“The United States and our allies will continue to take decisive action around the world to stop the flow of tools and technologies that Russia needs to wage its illegal and immoral war against Ukraine,” stressed Treasury Undersecretary Wally Adeyemo.

The Treasury has highlighted that thanks to this type of sanctions on Russia and the increasing number of restrictions imposed on third parties, the Kremlin is increasingly dependent on “complex and expensive transnational schemes” to acquire the tools it needs to continue with its war machinery.