Russia approves 200 export sanctions in response to Western sanctions

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Russia On Thursday, Ukraine approved a list of 200 goods and equipment to be exported from the country in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on its military operations.

“The government has approved a list of imported goods and equipment that are temporarily prohibited from exporting from Russia. The decision will be effective until the end of 2022. It was adopted as a follow-up to the Presidential Executive Order on the Application of Special Economic measures in foreign economic activity to ensure the security of the Russian Federation,” read the press release of the Government of Russia.

The catalog includes more than 200 products, including technical, telecommunications and medical equipment, vehicles, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, as well as railway cars and engines, containers, turbines, metal and stone cutting machines, video displays, projectors, consoles. and switchboards are included.

The export of these goods has been suspended to all countries, excluding the member states of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)Abkhazia and South Ossetia, added the release.

A special authorization procedure, to be approved in a separate government resolution, will be applied for exports to the latter states.

Under this, allows export of these goods EAEU StateAbkhazia and South Ossetia are to be issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, the release said.

In addition, the government has also suspended the export of a number of timber and wood products to states taking hostile actions against Russia, as per the approved list.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed legislation allowing the seizure of Russian assets in Ukraine.

Zelensky signed a law allowing the confiscation of Russian property in Ukraine. It allows Ukraine to confiscate property belonging to the Russian Federation or its residents without compensation. Parliament passed it on March 3, The Kyiv Independent tweeted.

It comes amid heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armies entering the third week today, marking the fifteenth day of the war.

“According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Youth and Sports: “As of March 9, 3 objects of sports and youth infrastructure in the Kiev, Kharkiv, Chernihiv regions were destroyed and 10 objects damaged in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv regions Was done.” Ukraine’s foreign ministry tweeted.

This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed.

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