Media: the U.S. Treasury Department said about the readiness of the G7 to impose fresh penalties against Russia
Alexey Bogdanovsky. The Minister of Finance of the USA Jacob Lew met Friday with Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Minister of Finance Natalia Jaresko and assured them that the countries "the Big seven" is ready to impose fresh penalties against Russia, said the Agency source in the Ministry of Finance of the USA.
"The U.S. and our allies in the G7 is ready to impose substantial additional punishment on the Russian Federation, if necessary to respond to its aggressive actions in the East of Ukraine ", - quoted the official message pour. Russia fundamentally denies the allegations of the Western countries of meddling in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Yatsenyuk and Jaresko Tuesday met with a number of high position officials in the U.S. capital, including the first Deputy Secretary of state Tony Blinken, Deputy head of the IMF, David Lipton, and a group of U.S. senators. Discussed, for example, the program of reform and restructuring of Ukraine's debt to private creditors.
Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List of the USA.
The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news