On Friday, the Japanese Government announced additional sanctions on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, which entail the blocking of assets of 15 other Russian citizens, mainly senior defense officials, and nine corporations in the military, naval and aerospace industries.
“We will continue to take appropriate action in collaboration with the G7 countries and the international community as the situation evolves,” Government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said at a press conference following an executive meeting where the new sanctions were approved.
Among the 15 Russian citizens sanctioned are senior officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense, such as Aleksey Krivoruchko, Timur Ivanov, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, Dmitry Bulgakov, Yuri Sadovenko and Nikolay Pankov, among others; as well as the director of the Press and Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova.
Also sanctioned were the director of the Russian Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugaev; the director general of the Rosoboronexport agency, Alexander Mikheev; and Andre Skoch, member of the Duma (the lower house of the Russian Parliament).
In addition, sanctions were passed on nine Russian organizations and corporations linked to the military, aerospace or naval industry, such as Russian Helicopters JSC, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, SC United Shipbuilding Corporation and the state agency Rosoboronexport (responsible for the import and export of defence material), among others.
These sanctions on Russia are in addition to those recently approved by the Japanese government, which to date brings to 76 the number of Russian citizens whose assets have been blocked, among senior government officials and businessmen, together with a total of 12 Russian organizations and corporations.
Since the beginning of the conflict over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Japan has imposed sanctions on Russian citizens, including President Vladimir Putin, as well as 12 Belarusians, including his counterpart Alexandr Lukashenko.
Japan's financial authorities have also ordered cryptocurrency exchanges based in their territory to block transactions with these assets involving individuals or entities subject to sanctions against Russia and Belarus.
Japan, like other G7 countries and the European Union (EU), has applied successive rounds of sanctions on Russia since the conflict began, including the exclusion of Russian banks from the Swift system or the veto on the export of semiconductors, machinery for the oil industry and other technology with war potential.
(With information from EFE)
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