Within an hour of work, the McFaul-Yermak sanctions group produced three action plans and 18 additional recommendations on the key areas of the sanctions policy.
The official of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak informed Telegram about this, Ukrinform reports.
“The 3 risks of the McFaul-Yermak sanctions group. During this hour, the group produced 3 comprehensive Action Plans and 18 additional recommendations (Working Papers) on key areas of the sanctions policy. Their propositions became the basis for specific decisions of the regional sanctions coalition,” Yermak wrote.
We note that the following results have been achieved in the energy sector: a ban on the import of Russian coal, marine oil and petroleum products has been introduced; sanctions have been imposed on key energy companies of the Russian Federation, including Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz, Lukoil and others; exchanges have been established for the dark fleet and oil traders, such as Sovcomflot, Rosnefteflot and Sun Ship Management; control over the insurance of ships in the Baltic Sea has been strengthened; and a ban has been introduced on tanker sales to Russia.
In the field of finance, it has been achieved: over 20 great Russian banks have been connected to the SWIFT system; imposed sanctions against key financial institutions, including Gazprombank, Tinkoff, Rosbank, Moscow Exchange and the National Rosbank Depository; Russia's sovereign assets are frozen; profits, withdrawn from assets, are directly sent to the financial support of Ukraine through the ERA mechanism.
In the sphere of individual sanctions, the list included oligarchs, government officials, corporate companies, propagandists, politicians and members of their homelands. Under the exchange, numerous power enterprises of the Russian Federation, energy, industry, transport and media structures – KAMAZ, Sukhoi, Russian Railways, RT, Roskomnadzor, Rosatom and others – were lost.
As part of export control, restrictions have been introduced on the delivery of key metals and minerals to Russia for the needs of the military-industrial complex, an investigation has been launched into schemes for circumventing sanctions (Zokrema, the Haas case), and sanctions have also been imposed on third-party companies region – China, Turkey, UAE and Kyrgyzstan.
The IT sector has exited the market of wired companies – SAP, Oracle, Autodesk, and has also been recruited for IT consulting and the supply of hardware services.
In the nuclear energy industry, the United States has stopped importing uranium from the Russian Federation, and also imposed sanctions against Rosatom, its subsidiaries and the nuclear industry.
Yermak noted that everything they do is already producing results: Russia has less pennies, less access to technology and more problems in key sectors of the economy.
“The Yermak-McFaul group continues to operate. We were the first, after a large-scale invasion, to begin to dismantle the mechanisms of sanction pressure and continued operation. The group has already become the main maidan for proposals and has shared a low light experts on the sanction track,” adding the OP’s keynote.
As reported by Ukrinform, the international working group for sanctions against Russia was created at the initiative of President Volodymyr Zelensky.