INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
London on Tuesday in the latest round of sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.Also hit with United States business bans were several
dozen high technology institutes and companies, including key state-backed electronics entities.The United States Treasury announced
sanctions on Putin associate and billionaire Andrey Grigoryevich Guryev, who owns the Witanhurst estate, the second-largest estate in London
transactions with them, and freeze their assets under United States jurisdictions.The Treasury also blacklisted Guryev's Caribbean-based
81-meter (267 feet) yacht Alfa Nero, which puts it at risk of seizure.However, the Treasury said Alfa Nero "has reportedly shut off its
location tracking hardware in order to avoid seizure."The Treasury also imposed sanctions on Alina Kabaeva, a former Olympic gymnast widely
described as Putin's girlfriend, and Natalya Popova, the wife of Kirill Dmitriev, the manager of the Russian government's
daughters."As innocent people suffer from Russia's illegal war of aggression, Putin's allies have enriched themselves and funded opulent
that Russian elites and the Kremlin's enablers are held accountable for their complicity in a war that has cost countless lives," Yellen
said.Viktor Filippovich Rashnikov, one of Russia's largest taxpayers, and two subsidiaries of his MMK, which is among the world's
largest steel producers, also were hit with sanctions.In a joint action, the State Department imposed sanctions, including visa
restrictions, on oligarchs "running massive revenue-generating companies," including Dmitry Aleksandrovich Pumpyanskiy, Andrey Igorevich
as were 31 unnamed non-Russian officials who have supported Russia's occupation of Crimea, the State Department said."Today, the United
States is taking additional actions to ensure that the Kremlin and its enablers feel the compounding effects of our response to the
Kremlin's unconscionable war of aggression," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
