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Joe Biden has announced 500 new sanctions against Russia.
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The USA has already imposed numerous sanctions against Moscow because of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.
Hundreds of new measures against Moscow are now to be added.
Washington - US President Joe Biden has announced more than 500 new sanctions against Russia in response to the second anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine and the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
The sanctions are aimed, among other things, at people connected to Navalny's imprisonment, the Russian financial sector and the defense industry, as Biden said in a statement this morning.
The specific measures should only be published later in the day.
But Biden explained: "We are also imposing new export restrictions on almost 100 companies that support Russia's war machine through the back door." The US broadcaster CNN reported that the sanctions could also be aimed directly at Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin.
Biden said the measures “will ensure that Putin pays an even higher price for his aggression abroad and his repression at home.”
Putin badly miscalculated and the “brave Ukrainian people continue to fight and are determined to defend their freedom and their future,” said the US President.
However, Ukraine is running out of ammunition.
That is why the US Congress must urgently approve billions in military aid for Kiev.
The media had previously reported on the planned 500 sanctions.
US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo wants to comment on this at 6:30 p.m. German time.
The USA and other Western countries have already imposed extensive sanctions on Russia.
On Wednesday, representatives of the 27 EU member states also agreed on new sanctions against Russia.
US President Biden met Navalny's wife and daughter in California on Thursday.
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