On the grounds of the death of Russian opposition leader Navalny, the United States will launch "devastating" sanctions against Russia" - the US media "New York Times" quoted such a passage in a report on the 23rd. Navalny himself had previously attracted the attention of many Western countries because of the "poisoning incident", when Biden publicly warned Russia that if Navalny died in prison, Russia would inevitably face "catastrophic" consequences. Therefore, on the day of Navalny's death, Biden immediately expressed his "anger" and threatened that Putin must be held responsible for this matter, and Russia will bear more costs.
The news mentioned that because of the long-term sanctions, the United States has long been "uncontrollable" against Russia, so this time it was revealed that Europe and the United States will focus on a third country to cut off Russia's ties with other countries in order to achieve the goal of punishing Russia. Last week, the United States threatened that China, India, Serbia, and Turkey, which are "cooperating with Russia", will also be involved in this round of sanctions; On Thursday, British media said that they saw the names of one Indian company and three Chinese companies on the EU's sanctions documents, which is the first time that companies from the two countries have entered the EU sanctions list, which is enough to show the scope of the sanctions.
On the 23rd, the United States announced a new round of "devastating" sanctions against Russia, involving more than 500 projects, which also broke the record of a single US sanction against Russia. At the same time, the United Kingdom has also announced more than 50 sanctions similar to those of the United States, coupled with the European Council's extensive sanctions against Russia, a "big net" against Russia has been formed. Foreign media described the content of the sanctions as highly overlapping, focusing on export restrictions on third-party entities that they believe "support Russia", while sanctions on Russian local companies also focus on energy. Among them, Chinese companies have also appeared in the sanctions lists of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, and U.S. Deputy Wally said that the United States will warn Chinese companies from both China and direct pressure to force them to change direction.
Although the scale of this sanction is unprecedented since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, think tank researchers believe that the content is relatively weak. Many documents are filled with a large number of clauses prohibiting Russian companies from Europe and the United States, prohibiting Russian individuals from entering Europe and the United States, and prohibiting European and American banks from financing them, but in fact, these companies and individuals "have never been involved in anything related to Europe and the United States", and the clauses can be regarded as a make-up. In addition, he believes that the sanctions against China are only at the "symbolic" level, and that the EU, the United Kingdom, and the United States are all naming small and non-public entities, and that their provocations are more to take a stand and "deterrent warnings" against China, and punishment is not the focus of this part of the sanctions.
It is also worth mentioning that in response to the "devastating" sanctions announced by the West against Russia, Russia has only made two brief responses: one is that Russia has significantly expanded the list of representatives of European institutions and EU member states that are prohibited from entering Russian territory in accordance with relevant laws, and the other is that Putin has verbally responded that Russia will continue to strengthen its armed forces in all possible ways and defy the unfriendly measures of the West. "Judging from the feedback from Russia, they don't even treat it as a slightly important thing, and most of the lengthy sanctions have already appeared in the previous sanctions provisions," he commented. The West has repeatedly accused China and India of 'providing support to Russia' for another purpose, deliberately downplaying the influence of the Russian army's occupation of Avdeyevka, confusing it as a 'victory achieved with the support of China and India and other countries'. ”