In response to the U.S. sanctions that are crippling Russia’s economy, the Kremlin has decided to impose its own list of sanctions against U.S. President Joe Biden, members of his administration, and “individuals associated with them,” CNN reports.
Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the president’s son Hunter Biden also made the list. Other honorees include administrators and deputy secretaries in various government agencies, The Daily Beast noted.
“In response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for top officials of the Russian Federation, from March 15 of this year, the Russian ‘stop list’ includes on the basis of reciprocity President J. Biden, Secretary of State A. Blinken, Secretary of Defense L. Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff M. Milley, as well as a number of department heads and prominent US figures,” the statement from the Kremlin read, according to CNN.
The statement went on to explain that this retaliation step was “an inevitable consequence of the extremely Russophobic course taken by the current US Administration, which, in a desperate attempt to maintain American hegemony, has relied, discarding all decency, on the frontal constricting of Russia.”
