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As a massive anti-terrorist operation of Ukrainian forces is ongoing in
Eastern Ukrainian Donbas region and the confrontation turns into the new stage,
when Russia actually not only supports and finance pro-Russian separatists and
terrorists in Ukraine, but also sends the troops, recruiting the mercenaries in
the Russian cities including Moscow, and even fires openly at Ukrainian
soldiers and border checkpoints with the missiles from the Russian territory,
USA and EU finally impose the third level of the sanctions against Russia.
As Russia doesn’t show any signs of the attempts to deescalate the
situation in Eastern Ukraine and continues destabilizing Ukrainian Eastern
region, USA President Barak Obama announced on Wednesday, 16 July, that US unilaterally
imposes the third level of sanctions against Russian companies and key sectors
of Russian economic and against several Russian high officials and oligarchs as
well.
Press Service of the US Ministry of Finance report about the new package
of sanctions to be imposed against Russia.
Several major Russian institutions and companies will face the new
American sanctions, among them Gazprombank, Vneshexpobank, Russian Military
Kalashnikoff Concern, one of the biggest Russian oil companies Rosneft’ and
many others, most of them representing key sectors of Russian economic. Thus,
the recently imposed sanctions are expected to seriously affect and damage
Russian economical situation in the nearest future.
Thus, these sanctions will affect the companies of the military and
industrial complex, oil and gas sector, banks working for the oil and gas
companies and structures and other institutions as well. In addition to that personal
sanctions were imposed also against several Russian officials, including member
and Vice-Speaker of Russian Parliament Sergey Neverov, Minister for the Crimean
Affairs Oleg Savelyev, Assistant of Russian President Igor Schegolev, General
of FSB Sergey Beseda, who had close ties with Ukrainian ousted president Victor
Yanukovich and has reportedly met with him during the massacre of Ukrainian
demonstrators in February, and some other personalities as well.
Russian experts and oppositional politicians expect these sanctions to
become a serious threat to Russian economy and Putin’s system as well, as the
biggest companies and Putin’s aides will be affected by the sanctions.
USA announced earlier their readiness to impose the new package of sanctions
without EU, in case EU leaders will not find the common solution and won’t take
a decision regarding the sanctions against Russia during the EU summit in
Brussels on 16 July.
European Union in its turn took a decision regarding the situation in
Ukraine and Russian invasion and declared that it will impose the new wave of
sanctions against Russian high officials and oligarchs and persons involved in
the crisis in Ukranian Donetsk.
European Council statement stated that European Council and EU members
and leaders are sorry that Russia didn’t take any steps to deescalate the
situation and on the contrary continues to destabilize it more and intensified
its support of military aggression. That’s why EU also imposes its own
sanctions against Russia.
Meanwhile, situation in Eastern Ukraine, where an anti-terrorist
operation is ongoing, remains extremely tense, as Ukrainian Armed Forces and
National Guard face terrible attacks of the Russian backed terrorists. Several
Ukrainian checkpoints are under constant fire from the Russian side, as the
video evidences and analysis of them indicates, there are casualties.
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