{"id":1398300,"date":"2022-03-24T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398300"},"modified":"2022-03-24T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:15:26","slug":"us-sanctions-russian-state-duma-defense-entities-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sanctions-russian-state-duma-defense-entities-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sanctions Russian State Duma, Defense Entities And More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-sanctions-russian-state-duma-defense-entities-and-more%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. announced more sanctions against Russia on Thursday, as President Joe Biden is in Europe for a series of summits with NATO and G7 leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/21\/joe-biden-evolving-intelligence-russian-cyberattacks-us\/\">sanctions<\/a> target more high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/23\/us-government-russian-forces-committed-war-crimes-ukraine-antony-blinken\/\">Russian<\/a> individuals and add on to those implemented by the Biden administration earlier in March.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/sanctioning-additional-members-of-russias-duma-russian-elites-bank-board-members-and-defense-entities\/\">noted<\/a> in a statement that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/targeting-elites-of-the-russian-federation\/\">latest<\/a> sanctions target 328 members of the Russian State Duma, the lower house of the country\u2019s parliament. In addition, the U.S. is sanctioning the Russian State Duma \u201cin its entirety,\u201d as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s close ally Herman Gref, who heads up Sberbank. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/18\/joe-biden-china-call-consequences-aids-russia-invasion-ukraine\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Warns China Of \u2018Consequences\u2019 Should It Aid Russian Invasion Of Ukraine)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More Russian elites, bank board members and defense entities will be sanctioned as part of Thursday\u2019s announcement, too, according to Blinken.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7397315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7397315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRUSSELS, BELGIUM \u2013 MARCH 24: Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, Germany\u2019s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pose for a G7 leaders\u2019 family photo during a NATO summit on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, at the alliance\u2019s headquarters in Brussels, on March 24, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. Heads of State and Government take part in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) Summit. They will discuss the consequences of President Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the role of China in the crisis. Then decide on the next steps to strengthen NATO\u2019s deterrence and defence. (Photo Henry Nicholls \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs part of this action, we are also targeting multiple Russian elites to include their properties and family members,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cNotably, this will include 17 members of the board of PJSC Sovcombank, a designated entity. These executives join the growing list of individuals associated with blocked Russian financial institutions that now also find themselves subject to U.S. sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, the United States is taking action to impose additional severe costs on Russia\u2019s defense establishment. This includes designating multiple defense-related entities and one associated individual. An important component of today\u2019s action is designating Russian defense companies that are part of Russia\u2019s defense-industrial base and that produce weapons that have been used in Russia\u2019s war of aggression,\u201d Blinken continued.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is attending an Extraordinary Summit of NATO heads of state and government Thursday to discuss efforts to help Ukraine amid Russia\u2019s invasion. The president is also attending a G7 Leaders\u2019 meeting Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The administration also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/24\/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-announces-new-humanitarian-development-and-democracy-assistance-to-ukraine-and-the-surrounding-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> additional humanitarian aid for Ukraine, which includes over $1 billion \u201cin new funding.\u201d The U.S. said it will welcome up to 100,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/joe-biden-administration-welcome-100000-refugees-ukraine\/\">refugees<\/a> fleeing Russian aggression, though the White House has noted that many may prefer to remain in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>As the Russian invasion continues, NATO is also expected to commit to increasing its troop <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/editor-daily-rundown-major-increases-nato-troops-headed-eastern-europe\/\">presence<\/a> along the eastern flank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/24\/-russia-ukraine-live-updates.html\">according<\/a> to CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. announced more sanctions against Russia on Thursday, as President Joe Biden is in Europe for a series of summits with NATO and G7 leaders.Thursday\u2019s sanctions target more high-profile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}