[뉴욕=뉴스핌]Correspondent Kim Geun-cheol = The U.S. government imposed additional sanctions on Russia on the 14th (local time).
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Reuters, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control decided on this day to impose additional sanctions on 150 foreign companies and individuals involved in transferring prohibited technology from the United States or Western countries to Russia or providing materials. did.
The targets of this sanctions include five companies, including Türkiye’s ‘Denkar’, as well as many Finnish companies and related people, including ‘Siberica’ and ‘Lumino’.
Finnish companies subject to sanctions this time were found to have recently supplied drone cameras, optical equipment, and lithium battery equipment to Russia.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a press conference in Beijing, China [사진=로이터 뉴스핌]
In addition, the U.S. government is known to have detected circumstances in which Turkiye’s government and companies provided technology and materials subject to sanctions following the Ukraine war, and recently requested a closer investigation and preventive measures.
WSJ reported that the United States and its allies have focused on financial and trade sanctions against Russian companies and financial institutions since the Ukraine war, but Russian authorities have been procuring banned technology and materials by bypassing third countries such as China and Turkic countries.
The media explained that the U.S. government’s additional sanctions are focused on overseas companies and individuals that have served as such ‘transshipment hubs’.
Accordingly, there are predictions that the United States may strengthen so-called ‘secondary sanctions’ on companies and individuals in third countries that indirectly support Russia in order to increase the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia related to the Ukraine war.
U.S. government officials have pledged to take appropriate action by strengthening related sanctions in response to Russia’s recent push to expand military transactions with North Korea and other countries to wage war in Ukraine.
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2023-09-14 15:31:00
