The United States imposes these sanctions on Russia over its imminent interference in the 2020 presidential elections and its paperwork on the massive SolarWinds civic campaign, in addition to impressive allegations related to Russian actions in Ukraine and Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden’s announcement also marks the expulsion of United States members of the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C., including integral intelligence services.
In addition, the Casa Blanca formally accuses Russia’s External Espionage Service (SVR) of having “massively” perpetrated the cyber attack that is expected to begin in 2019 and penetrate the Gobierno state systems and large companies through a SolarWind business program.
Hasta now, Washington only has its word of suspicion that Moscow was behind this jawbone, but its players ensure that the intelligence community is “completely safe” from being treated by SVR.
“To compromise the SolarWinds software software chain, SVR could potentially alter more than 16,000 IT systems worldwide,” the Casa Blanca said.
In total, the Washington sanction is a 6-composer rusas for sus actividades de ciberespionaje, a 32 organizations and persons rusas of injerencia elections; is 8 individuals and entities by the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
These are the last medias related to the “occupation and repression” of Crimea at a moment of intense tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and are coordinated with the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, following the White House .
In addition, the Treasury will issue an order that prohibits participating financial institutions from participating in the main market of issued bonds from the 14th of June by the Central Bank of Russia and other institutions of the country, with the intention of covering its sale .
Russia’s sanctions respond to “actions taken by the Governor and its intelligence services against sovereignty and the interests of the United States”, the Casa Blanca said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the superstars cited Russia’s repression in 2019 of Afghan militias over the deaths of state soldiers, revealing the year passed by The New York Times diary.
Biden concludes that all of Russia’s actions are a ‘national emergence’ for the United States, a declaration that could lead to an impressive range of sanctions against Moscow, now and in the future.
The White House affirms that, despite the sanctions, it does not want to continue with a “negative trayectoria” with Russia, which Biden has proposed to its Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to maintain a bilateral currency in a third country.