New Sanctions Not Related to Russia's UN Vote on MH17 Tribunal - US Embassy

New Sanctions Not Related to Russia
# 30 July 2015 22:28 (UTC +04:00)

The US Department of Treasury added earlier on Thursday nearly two dozen entities and eleven individuals to the sanction’s list related to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, including Russian defense manufacturer Izhevsky Mekhanichesky Zavod, banks, port operators in Crimea and Rosneft’s subsidiaries.

"This is not related at all [to voting in UNSC], this is about maintaining the integrity of existing sanctions to make sure that they have the same impact that they had been having all along," the US embassy's press secretary, William Stevens, told RIA Novosti.

"This is not an escalation in any way," he stressed.



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