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Japan introduced sanctions against 135 Russian and Russian-related companies and individuals who helped the Russian Federation bypass sanctions restrictions.
This was reported by Aljazeera.
Japan has expanded sanctions against 57 Russian and 27 Belarusian companies, as well as a number of legal entities from the UAE, Armenia, Syria and Uzbekistan. Among the Russian organizations subject to sanctions are Yunarmiya, the private military company Patriot and the Ural Civil Aviation Plant.
In addition, the sanctions included Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Tatyana Shevtsova, Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova, Children's Ombudsman of the Moscow Region Ksenia Mishonova and Head of the Ground Headquarters of the Russian Forces Alexander Lapin.
Japan has frozen the assets of 19 individuals and 43 entities directly involved in the “invasion of Ukraine or the destabilization of eastern Ukraine.”
Japan will also join Western countries in imposing an embargo on the import of Russian non-industrial diamonds from January 1.
The American publication The Atlantic writes that now that Vladimir Putin finds himself in a war of attrition, his only chance of victory depends on whether he can survive Ukraine and its military fans.
According to author Leon Aron, Putin is counting not only on the demoralization of the Ukrainian people and on “Ukraine fatigue” in the West, but also on the fact that his own country has the stamina for a long and brutal struggle. However, after nearly two years during which Putin has largely succeeded in isolating most of his subjects from the war, the effects of Western sanctions, coupled with the astronomical and ever-increasing human and monetary costs of the conflict, are finally beginning to take a toll pain to the broad masses of Russians.
Meanwhile, the direct consequences of war and fiscal profligacy are becoming increasingly obvious. The military operation is squandering the Kremlin's cash reserves. Defense spending, which accounts for about 40% of the state budget, is set to double next year. With approximately $300 billion of Russian sovereign wealth frozen in the West, the Kremlin was forced to withdraw $38 billion from the National Wealth Fund for a rainy day. This is a fifth of the fund and 2% of the country's GDP.
On November 22, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VRU) approved the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to introduce sectoral economic and other sanctions against Russia and Belarus.
As people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported in his Telegram channel, according to legislative initiative No. 10271, the restrictions will remain in effect for the next 50 years.
He noted that new restrictions will affect the military-industrial complex (DIC) of the Russian Federation and Belarus.
“By this decision, the National Security and Defense Council supported the proposals made by the Cabinet of Ministers for the application of certain sectoral economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) in the defense industry for a period of 50 years,” the message says.
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