Russia imposes sanctions on Joe Biden and 12 other US officials

MOSCOW, March.15, (ST)-Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said US President Joe Biden and 12 other top officials had been banned from entering the country in response to US sanctions.

 

The measure, which also applies to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “is the consequence of the extremely Russophobic policy pursued by the current US administration”, the Russian foreign ministry setressed in a statement.

 

It said: “The sanctions are “an inevitable consequence of the extremely Russophobic course taken by the current U.S. administration, which, in a desperate attempt to maintain American hegemony, has relied, discarding all decency, on the frontal constricting of Russia.”

 

The ministry pointed out, however, that Russia does not withdraw from maintaining official ties with the United States, and, if necessary, will “solve problems stemming from the status of the ‘blacklisted’ individuals, in order to organize high-level contacts.”

 

Compiled by: Basma Qaddour