Washington-Sana
Today, the United States announced new sanctions against Belarus for its support of the Russian military operation in Donbas.
The US Treasury said in a statement that "as part of the United States' response to the Russian military operation against Ukraine, the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on 24 Belarusian individuals and entities for supporting and facilitating Russian interference in Ukraine," adding that "focus was placed on the defense sector and institutions." Finance in Belarus.
For its part, the US State Department announced the expulsion of the second most prominent Russian diplomat in Washington, in response to Russia's expulsion of the second American diplomat in Moscow earlier this month.
And a US diplomatic source considered that the US State Department informed the Russian embassy yesterday that it would expel Minister Counselor Sergey Trebelkov, saying that "the expulsion has nothing to do with the Russian operation in Donbass."
Russia expelled the deputy head of the US diplomatic mission in Moscow Bart Gorman from Moscow in the middle of this month.
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