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The emergency NATO summit on Ukraine will begin on Friday at 17:00 Moscow time via videoconference. This is reported by TASS with reference to the widespread work schedule of US President Joe Biden.
“9:00 (17:00 Moscow time). The President (Biden) is meeting with other NATO Heads of State and Government at an emergency videoconference summit to discuss the security situation in and around Ukraine.
Earlier, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed the Russian military operation in Ukraine with US NATO allies. Austin “confirmed the unity of the United States, its allies and partners in support of Ukraine.” In addition, “he asked NATO allies to consider additional investment in providing the defense capabilities of the alliance and strengthening the means of self-defense of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.”
The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine. As reported, military infrastructure is disabled by high-precision means. In response to Russia’s actions, Western countries (USA, Canada, EU, UK, Japan) announced new sanctions against Russia, including financial and economic ones. In particular, the US imposed sanctions against 11 legal entities, including a number of Russian banks. We are talking about the banks Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Otkritie, Novikombank, Sovcombank. The ban on raising capital through the issuance of debt and shares applies to Gazprom, Gazprombank, Gazpromneft, Transneft, Rosselkhozbank, Rostelecom, RusHydro, ALROSA, Sovcomflot, Russian Railways.
The new sanctions list also includes Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank, as well as Andrey Puchkov and Yury Solovyov, members of VTB management, and his wife Galina Ulyutina. In addition, the United States imposes sanctions against the sons of the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for environmental protection, ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, and the Secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev.
Canadian authorities have imposed sanctions against 27 Russian financial institutions in connection with the start of a military operation in Ukraine. The list includes, in particular, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Alfa-Bank, Roseximbank, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Genbank and others.
In addition, sanctions have been imposed against Gazprom, Russian Railways, Gazpromneft, Transneft, ALROSA, the United Aircraft Corporation, and Tactical Missiles.
In total, 382 Russian citizens and 32 legal entities were included in the Canadian sanctions lists. The lists of citizens of the Russian Federation, in particular, include the head of Sberbank German Gref, the chairman of VEB.RF Igor Shuvalov, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and members of his family, as well as the children of Arkady Rotenberg – Lilia, Pavel and the sons of Boris Rotenberg – Boris and Roman. In addition, Canada imposed sanctions against the son of the director of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, Denis, the son of the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, Vladimir, and the chairman of Promsvyazbank, Pyotr Fradkov.
In addition, 351 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation were included in the list for the fact that parliamentarians supported the recognition of the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (LDNR). Among them are Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Boyarsky, Irina Rodnina, Vyacheslav Fetisov.
Source: Rosbalt
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