The United States has imposed sanctions on more than 400 entities and individuals that support Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, the State Department said, including Chinese companies that US officials believe are helping Moscow circumvent Western sanctions and bolster the military. her.
The sanctions include measures against companies in China involved in shipping machine tools and microelectronics components to Russia, according to a State Department fact sheet outlining its 190-target sanctions. The Treasury Department imposed the remaining sanctions, an official said.
The State Department’s sanctions include moves to strangle Russia’s energy sector and target companies in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Central Asian economies that the US believes are helping Russia evade sanctions, it says. the State Department.
“Today’s actions hit Russia where it hurts — undermining its ability to generate revenue through its energy projects and cutting off the acquisition of materials to supply its war machine,” said the State Department’s director of policy and implementation. of economic sanctions, Aaron Forsberg.
Among the targets of the new sanctions is the import-export arm of China’s Dalian Machine Tool Group, which the State Department says supplied Russian companies with $4 million worth of dual-use items.
China claims it is not supplying weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine, but defends what it says are normal trade relations between China and Russia.
These latest US sanctions include measures against companies that supply components used in the Russian Orlan drones that Moscow uses in Ukraine.
Washington has also sought with the sanctions to derail future energy projects in Russia and shipping of liquefied natural gas (LNG). It targeted Russia’s $21 billion Arctic LNG 2 project, already hit by Western sanctions that have restricted its access by icebreaker tankers, as well as other companies involved in future energy projects in Russia, according to the prospectus.
The sanctions also target companies involved in transportation, such as United Arab Emirates-based White Fox Ship Management, which the US says recently acquired four tankers to transport liquefied natural gas.
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