The U.S. State Department has announced that on October 30, sanctions were imposed against nearly 400 entities or individuals who are directly or indirectly supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The U.S., along with its allies, regularly introduces new restrictions on entities or individuals that fuel Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and assist Russia to circumvent sanctions.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the recent restrictions are applied to companies that are involved in networks of sanctions evasion in 17 jurisdictions including China, India Malaysia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Thailand and Turkey.
The U.S. Treasury Department has added nearly 50 organizations to its list of sanctioned companies and expanded control over another 40 to limit the illegal flow to Russia of “sensitive dual-use products”.
Exports of precursors were also restricted to Russia and Belarus to prevent the production components that could be used in the battlefield.
Sanctions were imposed against a company involved in the transport of equipment for the Russian Arctic LNG 2 Project and a network shipping companies from the UAE, Singapore and Malaysia involved in the purchase and transportation of LNG for Novatek.
Three subsidiaries of Rosatom – the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company – were also sanctioned.
The U.S., along with our allies, will continue to take a decisive action around the world to stop the flow critical tools and technology that Russia needs to wage an illegal and immoral conflict against Ukraine.
The U.S. Treasury Department has also sanctioned Russian Deputy Defence Ministers Pavel Fradkov and Andrei Bulyga. Alexander Fomin and Viktor Goremykin were also included in the sanctions.
Fomin was named deputy defense minister early in 2017, Goremykin by July 2022, Bulyga by March 2024, Fradkov, in June, after Andrei Belousov had been appointed the new head of Russia’s Defense Ministry.
The U.S. list also includes Anna Tsivileva – the great-niece to Russian President Vladimir Putin whose European Union sanctions have been in place since 2023.
Serhii derkach, Deputy Communities and Territories Minister, presented a step-bystep plan for the partial reopening Ukraine’s airspace during a conference held in Warsaw.
“Russia thinks that they are very powerful, but if we had wanted to seize their power plant, then we would have done so, we could have done so, but we didn’t want to,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to Interfax the Russian banking giant offers interest at as low as 2% and plans to extend its offer to Kherson oblast and Zaporizhzhia as soon as construction of “housing” begins there.
The denial comes just a day after Financial Times reported that Ukraine, Russia and other countries are resuming talks about stopping the strikes on their energy infrastructures after the talks abruptly ceased in August after Ukraine’s Kursk invasion.
The prime minister of a NATO member and EU country discussed a number of topics with the propagandist sanctioned in the West, including the Nord Stream explosions and the alleged Western fatigue regarding the support for Ukraine.
It was a confidential information between Ukraine & the White House. How can we understand these messages? Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, said this during a press conference with journalists from Nordic nations.
Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Future Investment Initiative Conference in Saudi Arabia said that Russia’s conflict in Ukraine demonstrated how a “$5,000 Drone can destroy a tank worth $5 million.”
One source stated that only a few hundred of them are special forces and the rest are regular troops.
A source at the South Korean news agency said that Seoul had not received a similar request from the Ukrainians and the matter was not being considered.
As part of the investigation, the office summoned Salome Zourabichvili on Oct. 31. The president refused acknowledge the results, calling it “a Russian special operation” and urging voters to protest.
According to the Air Force, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 33 of the 62 Russian Shahed drones launched over night. Twenty-three drones were reported “lost.”
Oleksandr Vikul, the head the city’s Military Administration, said on his Telegram channel, Oct. 30, “Unfortunately, 55-year-old male died at 8:50 am.”
Microsoft warned in a blogpost on October 29 that the Russian hacker group Midnight Blizzard was sending highly targeted phishing email to U.S. citizens working in government, academia and defense organizations as well as non-governmental organisations.
In a separate press briefing on October 28, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder stated that a “relatively few” North Korean troops were already in Kursk Oblast.
On Oct. 29, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen dictator, appeared to boast about using Ukrainian prisoners in Chechnya as human shields. He claimed that there were casualties after a drone attack on Chechnya.
This includes 1,560 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
The city authorities reported that Russian drones attacked Kyiv overnight on October 30, 2010.
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, will be speaking at the Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security on October 31, Belarus.
The Financial Times reported that Ukraine and Russia have begun preliminary discussions to stop attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure.
Mediazona, an independent Russian media outlet, and BBC Russia confirmed through open-source research the names of 75.382 Russian soldiers killed since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion.
Brekht warned that if Russia continues to attack critical energy infrastructure, as it did in the year 2023, Ukrainians could face power outages of up to eight hours on “critical” days.
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