As announced at the G7 summit, the United States has joined the restrictions on Russian gold imports.

The United States and several key economic allies will ban Russian gold imports.

This is stated in the message of the US Treasury.

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As announced at the G7 summit, the United States joined the restrictions on imports of Russian gold, Russia’s largest export outside the energy sector, along with Britain, Canada and Japan.

In addition, sanctions have been imposed against hundreds of companies (Kamaz, Tupolev and the Union of Donbas Volunteers), many of which are critical to the Russian Federation’s military-industrial base, including the state corporation Rostec, as well as 57 Russians.

This time, the black list of the US Treasury included, in particular, pro-Russian collaborators (Galina Danilchenko), propagandist Tina Kandelaki and ex-Russian Defense Minister Sergei Serdyukov. 

“The broad multilateral commitments and actions of the G7 members this week have further limited the Russian Federation’s access to technologies critical to their military. Targeting the Russian defense industry will reduce Putin’s options and further complicate his war against Ukraine, which is already suffering from violated supply chains and disruptions in logistics,” said US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. 

As UNIAN wrote, at the June summit in Germany , the leaders of the G7 agreed to further restrict Russia’s access to key industrial resources, services and technologies; to limit Russia’s participation in world trade, in particular, to reduce the income of the Russian Federation from the sale of gold (as previously announced).

(C)UNIAN 2022