Yuri Kobzar20:24, 15.01.25

The new sanctions package is similar in scale to the blow to Russian oil exports last week, but now the Russian defense industry is under attack.

The United States has imposed new sanctions against nearly 250 individuals and legal entities involved in Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.

In particular, the military-industrial sector, their suppliers (including from China and Turkey), financial institutions, and subsidiaries of the Rosatom corporation have come under attack, the US State Department reported .

Thus, by decision of the State Department, more than 150 individuals and legal entities involved in evading previously imposed sanctions were added to the sanctions list. In particular, we are talking about companies based in the People’s Republic of China.

In parallel, the U.S. Treasury Department “redesignated” nearly 100 previously imposed sanctions against entities in Russia’s financial services, energy, defense, and related material sectors. The Treasury Department is also designating entities involved in several financial sanctions evasion schemes.

Thus, Chinese suppliers of aircraft engines and components for them, industrial machine tools, electronic components, servomotors, electric batteries, bearings, and components for communication systems were hit by sanctions.

These goods were used in particular in Russian controlled aerial bombs, ZALA and Lancet drones, and other types of weapons.

In addition, the State Department is imposing sanctions on major scrap metal processors, aluminum producers, and pipe manufacturers that are critical to Russia’s military-industrial base and energy sector – as are enterprises that generate revenue for Russia.

Among others, the sanctions list also includes the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Zaporizhzhya NPP, a Russian organization created in October 2022 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation with the aim of illegally claiming ownership of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant of Ukraine. The CEO of this organization, Vladislav Isaev, was also sanctioned.

Oil sanctions January 10

As UNIAN reported, on January 10, the US announced a new large-scale package of sanctions against Russia , which was aimed at Russian oil exports. In particular, more than 180 oil tankers of the “shadow fleet”, two large Russian oil companies and companies that insured these tankers were hit.

According to Bloomberg , this sanctions package has turned out to be perhaps the most powerful of all time, and could harm Russian oil exports almost more than all previous sanctions combined.

(C)UNIAN 2025