United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the US is imposing visa restrictions on over 600 Russian individuals for repressing independent media and human rights abuses, as well as 17 Belarusian nationals for undermining democracy in Belarus.
"We will use every tool to promote accountability for human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine. The actions today hold to account individuals participating in Putin and Lukashenko's repression, and those who seek to enable it," Blinken stated.