Japan has expanded its package of sanctions against Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions list includes dozens of companies, including those from China and four other countries.
According to Japan, these companies are helping Russia avoid sanctions by purchasing electronics for military use, informs Radiosvoboda.
It is known that 11 people and 42 organizations from Russia are under sanctions. Among them are “Alrosa”, the Ilyushin Aviation Complex, the Tupolev Concern, two production facilities from the “Almaz-Antey” Concern, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, the Perm Powder Plant, the Arzamas Instrument-Making Plant, and other military-industrial companies.
Seven Chinese companies were also subject to restrictions. They helped Russia buy electronics. In addition, one company each from India, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Uzbekistan was subject to restrictions. The assets of these companies in Japan must be frozen, and transactions with them by Japanese companies and citizens are now prohibited.
The sanctions were imposed on the secretary of the Russian Central Election Commission, Natalia Budarina, and five other members of the CEC, as well as the head of “Tactical Rocketry” Boris Obnosov, the director of “Uralvagonzavod” Alexander Potapov, and others.
A week ago, the United States also imposed sanctions on Chinese companies that helped Russia purchase electronics.
The Japanese authorities stopped exporting many types of equipment, machinery, vehicles, and various industrial goods to Russia.
On May 24, Japan and South Korea expanded their sanctions lists against Russia over the purchase of weapons from North Korea. Nine Russian companies, two Cypriot firms, and Vladimir Mikheichik, CEO of the Russian state-owned “224th Flight Detachment”, were placed under restrictions.
On April 5, the Japanese Ministry of Commerce published a list of 164 categories of industrial goods that are banned from being supplied to Russia. The sanctions concerned lithium-ion batteries, gas pipes, motor oil for cars, thermostats, nitrocellulose products, and woodworking machines. In addition, exports of photographic equipment, hand-held power tools, tungsten powder, molybdenum, cobalt, zirconium, and rhenium were banned.
