Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 30 accused the West of orchestrating the blasts. Though pipelines were not operating at the time of the blasts, they still contained natural gas. Russia cut natural gas supplies to Europe after Western sanctions were imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February. Moscow has requested an emergency meeting at the UN Security Council to discuss the explosions and called for a thorough international probe to assess the damage to the pipelines, which carry natural gas from Russia to Europe. Norwegian researchers on September 30 published a map projecting a huge plume of methane released by the damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that will travel over large swaths of the Nordic region. "Through its historically unprecedented campaign of sanctions and export controls, the United States and an international coalition of allies and partners have devastated Russia's ability to access foreign components and technology," the department said.Īs a result of the sanctions, Russia's defense-industrial base "is desperate to provision its war efforts and has resorted to third-country intermediaries and suppliers," the Treasury Department said. The Treasury Department said it was immediately implementing the guidance. The G7 industrialized nations on September 23 issued guidance that designated several international suppliers and associated individuals that have supported Russia's defense sector. The United States is issuing a clear warning supported by leaders of the Group of Seven that the countries will "hold to account any individual, entity, or country that provides political or economic support for Russia's illegal attempts to change the status of Ukrainian territory," Blinken said. Putin Signs Decrees Seizing Parts Of Ukraine As He Lashes Out At West Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States "unequivocally rejects Russia's fraudulent attempt to change Ukraine's internationally recognized borders." The State Department is imposing sanctions on family members of the mayor of Moscow, who is also a member of Russia's Security Council, and visa restrictions on Russian national Ochur-Suge Mongush, who is accused by the United States of torturing a Ukrainian prisoner of war. State Department imposed visa restrictions on 910 people, including members of the Russian military, Belarusian military officials, and Russian proxies acting in Russia-held portions of Ukraine, the department said. The Treasury Department's announcement was coordinated with the Commerce Department, which added 57 companies to its list of export control violators. Yellen said the Treasury Department was also targeting leaders of Russia's financial architecture "as part of our aggressive and coordinated effort to hold Putin and his enablers accountable for his unprovoked invasion, and limit their ability to prop up their economy." government are taking sweeping action today to further weaken Russia's already degraded military industrial complex and undermine its ability to wage its illegal war." "We will not stand by as Putin fraudulently attempts to annex parts of Ukraine," Treasury Secretary Janet L. The United States has supplied Kyiv with sophisticated long-range missile systems on the condition that Ukraine not use them to hit targets inside Russia. If the West would supply weapons with longer ranges, then Ukraine could bring the impact of the war closer to Russia, they said. The authors added that Ukraine didn't so much need quantity as quality weapons from Western allies. "Thanks to this distance, Russian citizens don't really painfully grasp the losses, failures, and most importantly, the cost of this war in all its understandings," they said. The attack on Crimea was a prime example, they said. Zaluzhniy and Zabrodskiy said that Russian officials and the population were willing to support the war in part because it is a "distant" conflict that doesn't threaten their lives. They added that the task of the Ukrainian military in 2023 "is to make these feelings sharper, more natural, and quite tangible for the Russians and in other occupied territories."
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"We are talking about a series of successful missile strikes on the enemy's Crimean air bases, first of all, on the Saky airfield," Zaluzhniy and Zabrodskiy said in the article. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war, click here.
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