The United States imposed sanctions on October 30 against almost 400 entities and individuals in more than a dozen countries that Washington says have been supplying Russia with advanced technology used in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions and other restrictions were announced simultaneously in statements released by the U.S. Treasury, State, and Commerce departments. The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 274 targets, while the State Department designated more than 120 and the Commerce Department added 40 companies and research institutions to a trade restriction list.
The sweeping sanctions show that the United States and its allies “will continue to take decisive action across the globe to stop the flow of critical tools and technologies that Russia needs to wage its illegal and immoral war against Ukraine," Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said.
SEE ALSO: Ukraine Live Briefing: Kyiv Says Moscow Used ICBMMore than half of the individuals and entities designated for sanctions in the new round are in India, China, Switzerland, and Turkey, the Treasury Department said.
"As evidenced by today's action, we are unyielding in our resolve to diminish and degrade Russia's ability to equip its war machine and stop those seeking to aid their efforts through circumvention or evasion of our sanctions and export controls," Adeyemo added.
The Treasury Department's sanctions added five deputy Russian defense ministers, including President Vladimir Putin's cousin, Anna Tsivileva, and former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's son, Pavel Fradkov. The other three deputy defense ministers designated are Andrei Bulyga, Viktor Goremykin, and Aleksandr Fomin.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that those added to the sanctions list by the State Department build on the “unprecedented measures” already imposed in coordination with U.S. allies and partners.
"The Department of State is targeting sanctions circumvention by parties in multiple third countries, several senior Russian Ministry of Defense officials and defense companies, and those that support the development of Russia's future energy production and exports," he added.
The State Department said it seeks to “disrupt the networks and channels through which Russia procures technology and equipment from entities in third countries to support its war effort.” The new designations target producers, exporters, and importers of items critical to Russia’s military-industrial base, it said in the statement.
The Commerce Department also unveiled trade restrictions against 40 foreign entities "to address their procurement of high-priority U.S.-branded microelectronics and other items on behalf of Russia."
Alan Estevez, Commerce's undersecretary for industry and security, said in a statement that American products “do not belong in the hands of those who prop up Russia's defense industrial base.”
The sanctions take particular aim at third-country evasion, including the highest number of entities and individuals in China, Hong Kong, and India ever hit in a single round of sanctions. In addition to targets in those three countries, entities and individuals in Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, and Switzerland also were designated.
The sanctions freeze any assets the entities and individuals hold in U.S. jurisdiction, block them from using the U.S. financial system, and bar American citizens from dealing with them.