U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN May 19, 2023 In coordination with the G7, Australia, and other partners, the United States is imposing new sanctions today on Russia for its illegal war in Ukraine. Today’s actions implement new commitments made at the G7 Leaders’ ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 19 May, 2023 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Sanctions, Secretary Antony J. Blinken
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN April 12, 2023 Today, the Department of State and the Department of Treasury are imposing sanctions on more than 120 entities and individuals across more than 20 countries and jurisdictions in connection with the Russian Federation’s unlawful and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 13 April, 2023 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Russia’s war in Ukraine, Sanctions
PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE JANUARY 26, 2023 The United States is sanctioning individuals and entities linked to Russia’s para-military Wagner Group and its head, Yevgeniy Prigozhin – including its key infrastructure and associated front companies, its battlefield operations in Ukraine, producers of Russia’s weapons, and those administering Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 27 January, 2023 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Countering the Wagner Group, Degrading Russia’s War Efforts in Ukraine, Russia’s para-military Wagner Group, Sanctions, Yevgeniy Prigozhin
November 15, 2022 WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning firms involved in the production or ongoing transfer to Russia of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which Russia has used in devastating attacks against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. OFAC is designating Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 16 November, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Sanctions, Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE NOVEMBER 15, 2022 Today we are imposing sanctions in response to Iran’s support of Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, including Tehran’s transfer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia, which are being used by Moscow to strike civilian infrastructure and cities. The Departments of State and the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 16 November, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Iran’s Transfer of Military UAVs to Russia, Sanctions
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN September 15, 2022 The United States continues to hold the Russian government to account for its war against Ukraine. Today, we are taking actions against major Russian defense entities, key advanced-technology firms that support Russia’s defense industrial base, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 16 September, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Kremlin's War Against Ukraine, Sanctions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 2, 2022 The United States, alongside over 30 partners around the world, has imposed unprecedented sanctions and export controls to hold President Putin to account for his war against Ukraine, restrict Russia’s access to critical technology it needs to fund its war machine, and turn Russia into a global financial pariah. The Russian ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 2 June, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Fact Sheet, Russia, Sanctions
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN April 20, 2022 President Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, conducted with the complicity of the Lukashenka regime, continues to cause needless suffering and thousands of civilian casualties. The world has witnessed the horrors of this war ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 21 April, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases, Speeches | Tags: Human Rights Abuses in Russia and Belarus, Sanctions, Sanctions Evaders
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 5, 2022 Today, the United States, with the G7 and the European Union, will continue to impose severe and immediate economic costs on the Putin regime for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha. We will document and share information on these atrocities and use all appropriate mechanisms to hold accountable those ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 7 April, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Alfa Bank, atrocities in Ukraine, Bucha, Sanctions, Sberbank
The White House April 15, 2021 The Biden administration has been clear that the United States desires a relationship with Russia that is stable and predictable. We do not think that we need to continue on a negative trajectory. However, we have also been clear—publicly and privately—that we will defend our national interests and impose ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 15 April, 2021 | Topics: Events, News, Press Releases | Tags: Russia, Sanctions
Press Statement
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State March 18, 2021 As the President has said, Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal — for Germany, for Ukraine, and for our Central and Eastern European allies and partners. The Department is tracking efforts to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and is evaluating information regarding entities that appear to be involved. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 19 March, 2021 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Nord Stream 2, Sanctions
Seven Years of Illegal Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation As delivered by Chargé d’Affaires Courtney Austrian to the Permanent Council, Vienna March 4, 2021 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Seven years ago, after protests in Kyiv brought an end to the corrupt Yanukovych regime, Moscow inflicted ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 4 March, 2021 | Topics: News, Speeches | Tags: Crimean peninsula, Crimean Tatar people, Illegal Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, OSCE, Sanctions
U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release Statement by Secretary Michael R. Pompeo January 19, 2021 Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on the Russia-based entity KVT-RUS and identifying the vessel FORTUNA as blocked property. KVT-RUS is being sanctioned pursuant to Section 232 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 19 January, 2021 | Topics: Exclude, News, Press Releases | Tags: Nord Stream 2, Sanctions
Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC March 11, 2019 Today, the United States sanctioned Evrofinance Mosnarbank, a Moscow-based bank jointly owned by Russia and Venezuela. With this action, we are targeting a financial institution involved in facilitating illegitimate transactions that prolong Maduro’s usurpation of democracy. As Maduro’s isolation grows, so do his desperate ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 11 March, 2019 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Sanctions, Venezuela
Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC December 19, 2018 Today, the Departments of State and the Treasury took joint action against Russia’s continued and blatant disregard for international norms. Specifically, the State Department added 12 individuals and entities to the List of Specified Persons (LSP) pursuant to Section 231 of the Countering America’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 20 December, 2018 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Russia, Sanctions
September 1, 2016 U.S. Treasury Department Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. Will Maintain Sanctions Pressure Until Russia Has Fulfilled All of Its Commitments under the Minsk Agreements WASHINGTON – To maintain the effectiveness of existing sanctions, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated 37 individuals and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Kyiv | 1 September, 2016 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Sanctions, U.S. Treasury Department, Ukraine
