The United States launched a new round of sanctions this Wednesday against hundreds of companies, including several Chinese companies, which it accuses of helping Russia in its war against Ukraine.
“The nearly 300 targets of these sanctions include actors that have allowed Russia to acquire the technology and equipment it needs abroad,” the Treasury Department said in a statement.
“Today’s actions will further disrupt and degrade Russia’s war efforts by attacking its military industrial base and the evasion networks that help supply it,” the announcement continued.
As part of the measures, the US on Wednesday named several Chinese companies responsible for producing and exporting “essential objects for the Russian air defense industry.”
In turn, the Treasury also sanctioned more than 80 companies that it accuses of helping Vladimir Putin’s government evade sanctions or supporting the Russian chemical and biological weapons program.
Among them are companies based in China, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Turkey, Slovakia and the United Arab Emirates, the statement detailed.
According to a State Department document, Russia has routinely used the chemical chloropicrin, as well as pepper spray against Ukrainian troops, which would go against the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Sanction on three defendants for Navalny’s death
“The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident, and is likely motivated by the desire of Russian forces to expel Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield,” the United States said.
The package of measures also includes sanctions against three individuals that the United States accuses of being related to the death of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny.
Those identified are all workers from the IK-3 and IK-2 penitentiary, in the Arctic town of Jarp, where the politician died in circumstances that are still unclear.
The announced measures come days after an official visit by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to China where he asked Beijing “not to help Russia”, stopping it from supplying components that could be used in the war against Ukraine. .
Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, China has maintained an ambiguous stance in which it has called for respect for “the territorial integrity of all countries,” including Ukraine, and attention to the “legitimate concerns of all countries,” in reference to Russia.
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