WASHINGTON, September 18. The recent introduction of the United States of new restrictive measures against Russia due to the fact that Moscow has not complied with a number of necessary conditions, according to Washington, to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine.
“The illegal invasion of Russia (Ukraine) has led to sanctions the United States and the EU. Russia needs to do more: to withdraw (from Ukraine), weapons, stop supporting separatist “- wrote the State Department spokesman Jen Psak in his microblog on Twitter.
So she answered the question one of the readers of the reasons for the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, despite the achievement of a ceasefire agreement in the East of Ukraine ..
It was reported that on Friday it was announced that the United States expanded sanctions against Russia. The restrictions put the oil, defense and banking sectors of the Russian economy. Published today by the Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC at the Ministry of Finance USA list includes “Gazprom”, LUKOIL, “Transneft”, “Rosneft”, “Gazprom Neft” and “Surgutneftegas”. Sanctions imposed on oil and gas companies, prohibit the supply them with products and technologies required for the development of oil fields in deep water and the Arctic shelf, as well as in shale formations. For “Gazprom Neft” and “Transneft” tightened access to foreign financing.
In addition, the list mentions a number of Russian banks – Sberbank, Bank of Moscow, Gazprombank, the Agricultural Bank, Vnesheconombank, VTB.
In accordance with the newly introduced restrictions to citizens and companies in the USA are prohibited from buying bonds of the above-mentioned Russian banks with maturities of more than 30 days, as well as provide them with loans.
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