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The United States will also impose new export restrictions on
nearly 100 entities for providing support to Russia and take
action to further reduce Russia's energy revenues, Biden said in
a statement.
The measures seek to hold Russia to account over the war and the
death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Biden said, as
Washington looks to continue to support Ukraine even as it faces
acute shortages of ammunition and U.S. military aid has been
delayed for months in Congress.
"They will ensure Putin pays an even steeper price for his
aggression abroad and repression at home," Biden said of the
sanctions.
Friday's measures will target individuals connected to Navalny's
imprisonment as well as Russia's financial sector, defense
industrial base, procurement networks and sanctions evaders
across multiple continents, he said.
The sanctions are the latest of thousands of targets announced
by the United States and its allies following Russia's Feb. 24,
2022, invasion of Ukraine, which has killed tens of thousands
and destroyed cities.
"Two years into this war, the people of Ukraine continue to
fight with tremendous courage. But they are running out of
ammunition. Ukraine needs more supplies from the United States
to hold the line against Russia’s relentless attacks, which are
enabled by arms and ammunition from Iran and North Korea," Biden
said.
"That’s why the House of Representatives must pass the
bipartisan national security supplemental bill, before it’s too
late."
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru, Editing by William
Maclean and Nick Macfie)
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