Flag of the United States of America. File photoWASHINGTON, May 8.New visa restrictions imposed as part of US anti-Russian sanctions affected 2,600 Russian military personnel, the State Department said. «, — the message spread by the press service of the State Department says.The United States will impose sanctions on three Russian TV channels Those whom the United States considers to be supporting, involved or responsible for the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the State Department said. Earlier, the US administration announced that regular visa restrictions became part of the anti-Russian measures taken. The authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics were also subjected to visa restrictions, the agency said. Sanctions were imposed on three Belarusian officials Dmitry Pavlyuchenko, Yuri Sivakov and Viktor Sheiman, the report says. Eight shipping companies from the Russian Federation and 69 ships were subjected to the list: Oboronlogistics, Transmorflot, the Northern Marine Company and others, the State Department said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
