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(Morning News) The United States announced a new round of sanctions on Russia, parliamentarians and national defense companies on Thursday (March 24).
Bloomberg reports that the United States will impose comprehensive sanctions on more than 400 individuals and entities, including 328 members of Russia's Duma (next House), a dozen Russian elites and 48 Russian defense companies.
The new round of sanctions will crack down on Russian savings banks, Graff, consultant of Russian President Putin, Russian billionaire Jimchenko, his company and family members; and 17 board members of Russian financial institutions SOVCOMBANK.Essence
The White House claims that the sanctioning national defense companies include Russian helicopters, tactical missile companies, high precision system companies, and material manufacturing companies NPK Tekhmash.
Senior U.S. government officials said that US President Bynden will make the above announcement at the summit with NATO and the Seventh -way Group on Thursday, and take other measures to reduce Europe's dependence on Russia's oil and natural gas.
Russian Defense Minister again appeared again after nearly two weeks
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The Russian Minister of Defense Sho Gulu has not appeared a few after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, causing heated discussions on the outside world.He briefed his face at a senior official meeting on Thursday (March 24), and was the first time in the media in the past two weeks.
Reuters reports that Shaygu, who is responsible for supervising Russia's so -called "special military operations", is a close ally of Russian President Putin.The 66 -year -old former general has not appeared in front of the public since March 11, causing the outside world to speculate on his whereabouts.
On Thursday, when Putin delivered a speech to his Security Council through a video conference, Hagodo appeared on the TV screen released by the Russian News Agency.In a video, the Russian News Agency also integrated the video screen in front of Putin the Shohgu appeared in the upper left corner.This video does not contain audio, nor shows that Shaygu speaks.
The Kremlin confirmed that Hagu and other senior officials participated in the Russian Security Council meeting.
When asked about the recent whereabouts of Shaygu, the Kremlin pointed out that the Minister of Defense rarely appeared in front of the media.The Kremlin spokesman Peskov said: "The Minister of Defense now has a lot of things to deal with. A special military operation is in progress, and now it is not the time for him to interact with the media."
Shayg is a veteran on the Russian political stage.After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, he was responsible for leading the emergency department.
Sho Gulu has served as Minister of Defense since 2012, and he was once considered to be Putin's potential successor in the Kremlin.He and Putin were photographed on vacation, fishing and picking mushrooms together in Siberia.
