The government of Japan announced this Friday new round of sanctions against high officials Russian politicians and militaryas well as the additional prohibition of Japanese exports of components that can be used in the war.
The measures approved this Friday by the Japanese Government Cabinet include the asset freeze of 36 people and three organizations, including Konstantin Chuychenko, the Russian Justice Minister, and various deputy ministers, state secretaries, and senior military commanders.
Those penalized also include political leaders of the self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics in Ukraineas well as people from the oligarch’s environment Suleiman Kerimovconsidered a figure close to the Russian president Vladimir Putin and also subject to Japanese sanctions since last March.
Japan also decided ban exports to 49 organizations linked to the invasion of Ukraine and ban sales of certain components, adding to Tokyo’s already-applied ban on shipments of semiconductors and other technological parts and devices.
The object is avoid its use for tear gas and automated devices that can be used by the russian forcesas explained by the vice spokesman of the Japanese Government, Seiji Kihara.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cannot be allowedsince it shakes an international order built for a long time with a lot of effort and sacrifice,” Kihara said at a press conference.
Japan, which this year holds the rotating presidency of the G7“will continue to work to improve the situation together with the countries of the Group of Seven and with the international community,” the spokesman said.
The new Japanese sanctions come after the United States announced new measures against Russian government charges such as the Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturovas well as five entities and one individual related to the group of Russian mercenaries Wagnerin an attempt to undermine Moscow’s offensive against Ukraine.
The new sanctions “will further hamper the Kremlin’s ability to arm its war machine which is engaged in a war of aggression against Ukraine and which has caused disproportionate death and destruction,” said the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenit’s a statement.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellensaid that “as sanctions and export controls on Russia by our international coalition continue to take their toll, the Kremlin desperately seeks weapons and support – including through the brutal Wagner Group – to continue its unjust war against Ukraine.” .
“Today’s expanded sanctions on Wagner, as well as new sanctions on his associates and other companies that enable the Russian military complex, will further impede Putin’s ability to arm and equip his war machine,” it added.
Target firms include Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute Co.a Chinese company that the Treasury Department says provided satellite imagery over Ukraine to the Wagner group.
“These images were collected to enable Wagner’s combat operations in Ukraine”, said a statement from the Treasury Department, which also announced sanctions against a subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based Chinese company.
The Chinese regime is officially an ally of Russia, but the United States has announced what it sees as lukewarm support from Beijing for the war in Ukraine, including a refusal to supply Moscow with weapons.
The Treasury Department also imposed sanctions on a United Arab Emirates-based aviation company, Kratolwhich said it had provided planes for the Wagner group to move personnel and equipment between the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.
(With information from EFE, AFP and AP)
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