Russia Becomes The Country Facing The Most Sanctions
Russia becomes the country facing the most sanctions in the world.
The military operation on Ukraine has made Russia one of the most sanctioned countries in the world.
New York-based sanctions monitoring site Castellum.ai said the US and its allies were the first to impose sanctions on Russia on February 22.
A day earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Ukraine’s two rebel regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, as “independent provinces”.
On 24 February Russia announced its military campaign. After that, a hundred more restrictions were imposed.
The site said there were 2,754 sanctions against Russia before February 22, and another 2,778 sanctions were imposed after the attack.
Together, a total of 5,532 sanctions have been imposed. With this, Russia has overtaken Iran, which is facing 3,616 sanctions.
According to the site, countries and territories that have targeted Russia with sanctions include Switzerland (568), the European Union (518), Canada (454), Australia (413), the US (243), the UK (35), and Japan ( 35) are included.
Russia becomes the country facing the most sanctions: Biden to ban the import of oil from Russia.
US President Joe Biden has decided to impose sanctions on imports of oil from Russia in a bid to tighten the grip on the Russian economy over the attack on Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had requested the US and Western countries to cut Russian imports several times, and in this sequence, the US is going to take this step. Cash flow continues.
Japan imposes more sanctions on Russia.
Japan freezes the assets of 32 more individuals from Russia and Belarus.
Japan on Tuesday withheld the assets of 20 Russian people, including the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, the deputy army chief, the press secretary of President Vladimir Putin’s government, and the vice president of the State Parliament.
Officials and business executives have been banned, including Viktor Lukashenko, president of Belarus’s National Olympic Committee.
Officials said Japan is also banning the export of oil refinery equipment to Russia and general-purpose goods to Belarus that could be used to bolster the country’s military capability.
