Nearly 300 entities targeted in US sanctions to ‘further disrupt and degrade Russia’s war efforts’; Russians using banned chemical weapons on battlefield, says state department. What we know on day 799
by the US for supplying “critical inputs to Russia’s military-industrial base”. US officials on Wednesday announced a sweeping package targeting nearly 300 entities in Russia, China and other countries. “Today’s actions will further disrupt and degrade Russia’s war efforts by going after its military industrial base and the evasion networks that help supply it,” said the US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen.
against Ukrainian troops and using riot control chemicals “as a method of warfare” in Ukraine. Russia’s use of the gas “comes from the same playbook as its operations to poison” Navalny in 2020, and Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in 2018, with the novichok nerve agent, the state department said, adding that it was delivering its findings to Congress.
The US government said it was sanctioning Russian state entities and companies linked to Moscow’s chemical and biological weapons programmes, including a. The state department is expected to convey its findings to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons , whose rules Russia and other members are required to obey.
, local officials said. In the north-eastern Kharkiv region bordering Russia, a guided bomb attack killed a 38-year-old woman and her father inside a car, the region’s governor said. Farther east in the Kharkiv region close to the city of Kupiansk, Russian shelling killed a 67-year-old woman in the village of Lelyukivka.
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