Ukraine war: Nations across the world have been announcing tough sanctions against Russia as punitive measures.
Amid tough global sanctions over the Ukraine war, Russia has published a “stop list”, permanently banning 963 Americans – including US president Joe Biden, vice president Kamala Harris, and secretary of state Antony Blinken – from entering the country. Hollywood celebrities – including Morgan Freeman and actor-filmmaker Rob Reiner – also make the list, American news network CNN has reported.
Moscow said the list includes people “incite Russophobia and those who serve them” and not the common Americans “who have always been respected by us”.
“Russia is publishing the list of American citizens, who are permanently barred from entering the Russian Federation, as countermeasures to the constant imposition of sanctions against Russia by the US and in response to inquiries about individuals included in our national stop list,” a statement on the Russian foreign ministry reads, ANI reports.
“Washington’s hostile actions, which boomerang on the US itself, will be further met with an appropriate response,” the ministry said, adding that “the Russian counter-sanctions have been forced and are aimed at pressuring the ruling American regime, which is trying to push the rest of the world into neo-colonial ‘rules-based world order,’ to change its behaviour by recognizing the new geopolitical realities”.
(With inputs from ANI)
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