The United States announced new sanctions against Russia this Thursdayspecifically to one of the largest banks in the country, Gazprombank, which is partially owned by the gas company Gazprom. Faced with this situation, Japan’s Minister of Industry, Yoji Muto, stated that his country will carry out the necessary initiatives to prevent the stable supply of Russian liquefied gas.
Among them, as recalled in a license published by the Treasury Department, are exemptions for transactions that were linked to the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project. until June 28, 2025. “Shakhalin-2 is important for Japan’s energy security,” Muto stressed this Friday at a press conference, defending that there will be no immediate interruption of this supply due to this reason.
“We will continue to provide detailed explanations to the United States and other G7 members as we have done in the past, and we will take all possible measures to ensure that there are no obstacles to ensuring stable supply to Japan,” said the Japanese.
The president of the gas company, who is the second largest supplier of urban gas in Japan, He also expressed the opinion that these new sanctions by the United States will not affect their settlement process for the purchase of fuel, since they do not use the bank subject to sanctions for their operations.
More than 2,300 people and entities have been sanctioned by the EU
This measure is added to the sanctions already imposed by the EU against Russia on the occasion of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with those related to human rights violations.
In total, more than 2,300 people and entities are subject to these restrictive measures of the European Union. Some of the figures on this list are the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, the members of the Russian State Duma or the former governor of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich.
