Biden announced a ban for ships from Russia to enter US ports

Russian ships will not be able to enter US ports, Biden announced, “this will deprive Moscow of the benefits of trade “which they have so enjoyed.” According to REUTERS, in 2021 ships from RUSSIA entered US ports about 1.8 thousand.

The United States will ban Russian-linked ships from entering American ports, President Joe Biden announced this on Thursday, April 21, CNN reports.

“No vessel that has sailed under the Russian flag or that is owned or operated for Russian interests will be allowed to dock in a United States port or approach our shores,” Biden said.

According to the American president, this measure was "another important step" along with European and Canadian allies "to deprive Russia of the benefits of the international economic system that they have enjoyed so much in the past."

The Central Bank warned of a decrease in the volume of Russian imports and exports Economics

With such restrictions, the American authorities intend to put pressure on Moscow because of the situation in Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing sources.

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Over the past year, Russian ships called at US ports about 1,800 times, Reuters sources said, noting that this amounted to an insignificant share of the total traffic. The US administration, they said, has looked into the matter in detail to ensure that such a ban does not have a noticeable impact on supply chains.

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In Belgium, a ban on the entry of Russian ships into ports came into force Politics

Earlier, a similar measure was taken in the European Union, the ban for Russian ships to enter the ports of European countries was included in the fifth package of sanctions against Russia. This set of measures was also intended to "increase pressure on the Russian government and economy, as well as limit the Kremlin's resources for aggression." An exception is provided only for those ships that are engaged in the transport of humanitarian aid, agricultural products or food. The same decision was made in CANADA, the British authorities allowed joining these measures.

In early March, the United States banned Russian aircraft from entering the airspace, this restriction affected charter and regular flights, both passenger and cargo. This ban also provided for exceptions, they can be made for aircraft performing search and rescue operations, and boards of humanitarian flights.

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In mid-April, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov accused Western countries of trying to form "four rings" of a global blockade around Russia. In his opinion, the West intends to “pull” Moscow out of world economic relations, which, in his opinion, will launch the processes of “degradation and collapse” of the Russian economy. “It is impossible to create such a blockade completely. it is impossible to isolate Russia, the sixth largest economy in the world, from the global economic system,” he said.

The ability of Western countries to isolate Russia was also questioned in the Kremlin in early March. “The world is too big for Europe and America to isolate any country, especially one as big as Russia,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president.

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