, including Arctic natural gas projects, as well as mining and factories producing and repairing Russian weapons.
The U.S. is sanctioning a newly established UAE company, which provides engineering and technology to Russia’s Arctic liquefied natural gas project, as well as multiple Russian companies involved in its development.bigger player in the energy market The U.S. package includes sanctions on several Turkish, Finnish and Russian companies that the State Department and Treasury say help— such as computer chips and processors — which the U.S. says ended up in weapons used by Russia.
Before the war, O’Brien said, Russia imported up to 90% of its electronics from countries that are part of the Group of 7 wealthy democracies, but sanctions have dropped that figure closer to 30%.“Russia is trying to run a full production wartime economy, and it is extremely difficult to do that with secretive episodic purchases of small batches of equipment from different places around the world,” O’Brien said.