The President of the United States extended the sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine
| The White House issued a statement announcing that the US President extended the sanctions against Russia in connection with the war in Ukraine for another year. |
reported by Mehr News Agency, continuing the pressure on the Kremlin, Washington announced the extension of the national emergency regarding Russia’s threat to the country’s national security for another year.
Lebanon Al-Nashrah network reported that the White House announced in a statement: “The imposed sanctions are a measure to limit Russia, which was imposed by the current US administration on February 21, 2022, Donald Trump’s administration on September 20 2018 and the administration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States in March and December 2014 refers to the Crimea region.
The statement specified that “all sanctions should continue beyond March 6, 2024.”
Joe Biden declared: “The restrictive actions and policies referred to in these executive orders continue to pose an extraordinary and extraordinary threat to America’s national security and foreign policy.”
Biden added: I am extending the state of national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660 for one year.
It should be said that after the start of the Ukraine war and the annexation of Crimea to Russia in March 2014, Washington started imposing sanctions against Russia. Since then, the sanctions against Moscow have been expanded and extended several times.
