The U.S. is working on a second, more punishing round of sanctions against Russia to be imposed in November for its nerve-agent attack in the U.K., a State Department official said.
“We plan to impose a very severe second round of sanctions,” Manisha Singh, the assistant secretary for the department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, told Congress on Thursday. She said it will include “banking sanctions, prohibition on procurement of defense articles, aid money -- it’s a laundry list of items that will penalize the Russian government.”
Russia hasn’t allowed on-site inspections or provided the U.S. with “verifiable reassurance” that it won’t use banned chemical weapons again, Singh said.
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