View of Sydney, Australia. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 14Australia has imposed new sanctions against 14 Russian companies, including Gazprom, Transneft, Rostelecom, RusHydro, as evidenced by an updated list of sanctioned individuals and legal entities persons on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country. According to the list, introduce countermeasures against Kamaz, Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, Ruselectronics holding, United Shipbuilding Corporation, Sevmash, Alrosa, Sovcomflot and Russian Railways. Sanctions also affected » Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Transneft, Rusgdiro, Rostelecom and Sogaz. Western countries have imposed numerous sanctions in response to the special operation of the Russian Federation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. A number of companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and the closure of production facilities in the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Western companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Russia will solve all the problems with the economy that the West creates for it. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
