International Pressure Mounts on Russia with New Sanctions and Restrictions.

The US has added hundreds more companies and individuals to its sanctions blacklist, targeting firms and research institutes involved in Moscow's investments into future energy production, networks for acquiring restricted technologies, and Russian financial networks. The new sanctions included dozens of Russian defense industry firms and technology traders, the country's leading gold miner, and aides to already-blacklisted senior Russian officials. The announcement came in parallel with the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, where leaders vowed to increase global economic pressure on Moscow to end its unprovoked 15-month-old invasion of Ukraine.