US Imposes New Sanctions On Russia Ahead Of Putin-Trump Meeting

Russian cryptocurrency companies have fallen under the restrictions.

Washington announced a new package of restrictive measures against Russia just a day before US President Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin. The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has placed Russians Pavel Karavatsky, Alexander Mir Serda and Sergey Mendeleev on the SDN list - a list of individuals completely isolated from the US financial system. They were accused of having ties to the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which, according to U.S. authorities, is involved in circumventing sanctions, reports The Moscow Times.

The sanctions register also includes Russian cryptocurrency companies Indefi, Grinex, Exve and the Bishkek-registered firm Old Vector. According to the US Treasury Department, all these entities are linked to businessman Sergei Mendeleev and a group of companies under the A7 brand.

The talks between Putin and Trump will take place on August 15 at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage, Alaska. The day before, Trump warned Moscow of "very serious consequences" if it did not agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, but admitted that if the talks were successful, a trilateral summit with President Vladimir Zelensky could take place.

According to The Guardian's sources in Moscow, at the meeting Putin intends to demand that Ukraine hand over Donetsk and Luhansk regions under Russian control and that the US recognize their annexation. Putin also does not plan to give up his claims to the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, but is considering the possibility of symbolically handing over to Kiev small territories in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, which are currently held by Russian troops. According to the newspaper's interlocutors, no real breakthroughs should be expected from the talks, but Putin, according to them, will try to persuade Trump to take a more favorable stance toward Moscow.

In the meantime, as The Washington Post reports, citing Kremlin insiders, there is growing fatigue from the war in Ukraine and a desire to return to normalcy in the upper echelons of the Russian government. One former Kremlin official said that "everyone is afraid of Putin" and has to show loyalty, while in fact many see the upcoming summit in Anchorage as a chance to end the SWO and reduce tensions.

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