US slaps sanctions on Russia technology sector, Ukraine proxies
US added Russian space, technology firms, and the GRU intelligence agency among others to its sanctions list.
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US added Russian space, technology firms, and the GRU intelligence agency among others to its sanctions list.
The U.S. Treasury Department on September 15 added top Russian finance officials, relatives of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and a Russian children's rights official who allegedly directs the removal of Ukrainian children to Russia to its sanctions blacklist.
Yevgeny Rasskazov joined the Russian mercenary group Task Force Rusich in 2014 after seeing a call for new recruits that neo-Nazi paratrooper Alexey Milchakov had shared online.
While some individuals with connections to violent extremism have indeed traveled to Ukraine, a mass influx of ideologically driven fighters has thus far not materialized.
Those mercenaries work for the Wagner Group, a military cell thought to be funded by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.