Russia on Tuesday imposed personal sanctions on 13 officials including US President Joe Biden and the country’s diplomacy, military, and intelligence chiefs. the move comes in the middle of current russia invasion of Ukraine.
In a statement, the Moscow Foreign Ministry announced the measures imposed in response to sanctions against several Russian officials.
“This step, taken as a counter-reaction, was an inevitable consequence of the extremely Russophobic course taken by the current the American administration, which in a desperate attempt to preserve American hegemony, made a bet, discarding all modesty, on frontal containment of Russia,” the ministry said.
He said those officials would no longer be allowed to enter Russia, among other penalties.
“At the same time, we do not refuse to maintain official links if they meet our national interest, and if necessary, we will solve problems arising from the status of people who appear on the ‘black list’ in in order to organize high-level contacts,” he added.
The ministry has released the following list of persons concerned :
1. Joe Biden, US President
2. Anthony John Blinken, USA secretary of state
3. Lloyd James Austin III, United States secretary of defense
4. Mark Alexander Milley, President of US Chiefs of Staff of Staff
5. Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan, national US President’s Security Advisor
6. William Joseph Burns, CIA director
7. Jennifer Rene Psaki, White House Spokesperson
8. Daleep Singh, Deputy national US President’s Security Advisor
9. Samantha Jane Power, Administrator of the american agency for Development international (USAID)
10. Robert Hunter Biden, son of the american president
11. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, former presidential candidate
12. Adewale Adeyemo, Deputy secretary of the u.s. treasury
13. Reta Jo Lewis, President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States
The statement also says that the list would be expanded in the close future with more senior American officials, military lawmakers, businessmen, experts and media personalities, “who are russophobic or who help incite hatred against Russia and the imposing of restrictive measures on this.”
He stressed that steps were being taken to protect Russia economy and ensure it’s sustainable development.
