US senators have proposed to impose sanctions against a number of Russian banks

This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the published project, which was prepared by a group of Democratic senators led by Robert Menendez.

“Mandatory sanctions on financial institutions require the imposition of sanctions on three or more financial institutions from the following list: Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, VEB.RF, Russian Direct Investment Fund, Credit Bank of Moscow, Alfa-Bank, Rosselkhozbank, FC Otkritie, Promsvyazbank , Sovcombank and Transcapitalbank, ”the bill says.

Earlier it was reported that Democratic senators will unveil a new package of sanctions against Russia in case the situation with Ukraine escalates.

Later, American senators proposed to impose restrictions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and a number of high-ranking officials in the event of an aggravation of the situation around Ukraine.

In December, the Russian president, in talks with his American counterpart Joe Biden, said that Russian troops were deployed in the country and did not threaten anyone.

Prior to this, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that Russia was not going to attack anyone.