On Tuesday, the Japanese authorities approved a new package of additional sanctions against Russia that includes the freezing of assets of 398 Russian citizens, including the president's daughters, Vladimir Putin, and the wife of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
According to a statement from the Japanese Foreign Ministry, this measure, previously announced by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, seeks to contribute to international efforts for international peace with the aim of resolving the conflict.
With this new package of sanctions, Tokyo will freeze the assets of the largest Russian bank, Sberbank, and the largest Russian private commercial bank, Alfa Bank, while banning new investments in the Eurasian country.
Thus, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Japanese authorities have officially decided to ban new investments in Russia after May 12, as well as a ban on the import of liquor, timber and machinery.
“The sanctions are part of Japan's latest efforts to add economic and diplomatic pressure on Russia to prevent a further escalation of the war in Ukraine and to facilitate a ceasefire,” the Japanese Prime Minister justified a few days ago at a press conference.
With these sanctions, the Japanese Executive will expand the list of individuals who will see their assets in the Asian country blocked from the current 400 to 550, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subordinates, who the G7 has defined as “the architects” of the invasion of Ukraine.
For its part, the United States has argued that Ukraine is “another page” in the same book of “Russian brutality”, since Moscow “despises” the laws of war in the framework of the appointment of the new Russian operations officer in Ukraine, Alexander Dvornikov.
“I would not mean to say that we know for sure that this new general (Dvornikov) will be the author of some additional new and bloodier tactics, but we can certainly say that from what we have seen (in Syria),” Kirby said at a press conference.
“We can all hope that those same brutal tactics, that same disregard for civilian life and civilian infrastructure, are likely to continue, as they are now concentrated in a geographically more confined area in the Donbas,” he added.
In the same vein, the US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, said that this change in leadership by Moscow is an indication that more war crimes will be seen, as in Bucha or Kramatorsk, as he said in an interview with the CBS network.
(With information from Europa Press)
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