New sanctions aimed at stopping the Russian “war machine”. Joe Biden confirmed, this Friday, February 23, in a press release a battery of several hundred new measures to ensure that President Vladimir Putin “pays an even higher price for aggression (towards Ukraine) and repression ” in Russia.
“If Putin does not pay the price for the death and destruction he is spreading, he will continue,” warned in a statement the American president, by announcing an arsenal of measures targeting individuals linked to the imprisonment of the opponent Alexeï Navalny, the Russian “war machine”, as well as a hundred entities helping Moscow to circumvent the sanctions already in place .
The Russian president “believed that he could easily bend the will and break the courage of a free people. That he could invade a sovereign nation and the world would turn its back. That he could shake the foundations of security in Europe and elsewhere. Two years later, it is even more obvious than on the first day: Putin made a serious miscalculation,” assured the 81-year-old democrat, at a time when the aid provided by the United States is interrupted, blocked by Republican parliamentarians.
“More than 500 new sanctions”
Joe Biden mentioned in his press release “more than 500 new sanctions” against “individuals linked to the imprisonment of Navalny” and against “the Russian financial sector, the defense industry, supply networks and perpetrators of circumvention sanctions, across several continents.” The United States will also take export restriction measures “against nearly 100 entities that provide covert support to the Russian war machine.”
“We are taking steps to continue to reduce revenues from the Russian energy sector, and I have asked my teams to strengthen support for civil society, independent media and all those fighting for democracy around of the world,” Joe Biden wrote again.
These sanctions represent “the largest tranche since the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine” on February 24, 2022, a spokesperson for the American Department of the Treasury said on Thursday. They also come in response to the death in a Russian prison of opponent Alexeï Navalny. American President Joe Biden accuses his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of being responsible.