Updated On: 20 May, 2023 08:52 AM IST | Hiroshima | Agencies
The US will unveil new sanctions to “extensively restrict Russia`s access to goods that matter for its battlefield capabilities,” a US official said on Friday. The US apparently plans to blacklist about 70 companies and organisations for selling restricted US products to Russia

G7 leaders during a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday. Pic/AP
Leaders who came together for the G7 summit on Friday vowed to tighten punishments on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, days before President Volodymyr Zelensky joins the summit in person on Sunday.
“Our support for Ukraine will not waver,” the G7 leaders said in a statement released after closed-door meetings, vowing “to stand together against Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war against Ukraine.” They said Russia started this war and can end this war.