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US Imposes Sanctions on Hundreds of Entities in China, Turkey, UAE to Curb Russia

The sanctions target Russia's sanctions evasion, future energy capabilities, banks, and its metals and mining sector, with over 250 individuals and entities targeted.

  • The US has imposed sanctions on hundreds of individuals and entities, including in China, Turkey, and the UAE, targeting Russia's sanctions evasion, future energy capabilities, banks, and its metals and mining sector.
  • The US Treasury and State departments targeted more than 250 individuals and entities in an attempt to crack down on Russia and its evasion of sanctions imposed by the US and its allies over the war in Ukraine.
  • The Treasury imposed sanctions on a network of entities and people based in China, Russia, Hong Kong, and Pakistan over the facilitation and procurement of Chinese-manufactured weapons and technologies to Russia.
  • The US targeted three companies developing the Ust-Luga liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, a facility at a Baltic seaport in northwest Russia to be operated by Gazprom and RusGazDobycha, seeking to interfere with Russia's future energy production and fuel export capacity.
  • The State Department also targeted Russian businessman Vladislav Sviblov and Highland Gold Mining, a UK-registered company owned and controlled by him that it said is Russia’s seventh-largest gold producer, as well as other companies connected to Sviblov.
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