we imposed sanctions on individuals including putin. other members of russia s security council and elites and their family members and we and our allies and partners are launching a task force to identify, track down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned russian companies and oligarchs. we will freeze and seize their yachts, private jets, opulent estates in world capitals. today, we re also imposing sweeping sanctions on russia s defense sector. in total, 22 russian defense related entities will be designated including companies that make combat aircraft, infantry fighting vehicles, missiles, unmanned ariel vehicles, electronic warfare systems. the very systems now being used to assault the ukrainian people, abuse human rights, violate international humanitarian law. we re also imposing rules on
we have imposed sanctions on individuals, including president putin, other members of russia s security council and elites and their family members. and we and our allies and partners are launching a task force to identify, track down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned russian companies and oligarchs. we will freeze and seize their yachts, private jets, opulent estates in world capitals. today we are also imposing sweeping sanctions on russia s defense sector. in total, 22 russian energies will be designated, including companies that make combat aircraft, infantry fighting vehicles, missiles, electronic warfare systems, the very systems now being used to assault the ukrainian people, and violate human rights and break international law.
down and seize the assets of oligarchs. we ll freeze and seize their yachts, private jets, opulent estates in world capitals. france announcing it seized a yacht for someone that is a close ally of putin and took over the yacht. german authorities seized a 500 foot yacht of another russian oligarch. that one cashed in at $600 million. in the u.k. oligarch roman abramovich is selling his london properties and chelsea football. the chicago has two helicopters bad and military grade missile detection system. he has always denied ties to
who surround him. closing american air space to russian plans, imposing new sanctions on oil and gas interests and moving to seize oligarchs assets in the u.s. the secretary of state today warning they could freeze and seize yachts, private jets, and their estates. could these oligarchs be a way of finally getting to putin, to influence his decisions moving forward? james longman from moscow again tonight. reporter: tonight, the economic pressure on vladimir putin and his inner circle intensifying. russia s push into ukraine hitting the one-week mark. the u.s. now threatening to seize the assets of any russian oligarch, wealthy businessmen with ties to the kremlin, that violates its sanctions. we will freeze and seize their yachts, their private jets, their opulent estates in world capitals. reporter: the u.s. not releasing new names yet, but this week, the eu sanctioning 26 individuals and one company. among them, the ceo of the state of company rosneft, another man