By David Shepardson and Karen Freifeld

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The US on Thursday added 71 Russian and Belarusian entities to its commerce blacklist together with a number of plane factories and shipbuilding and analysis institutes in its newest effort to deprive the Russian army of U.S. expertise and different objects.

The export restrictions are amongst a raft of latest sanctions the Washington imposed on Thursday in response to Russia’s battle in Ukraine, together with prohibitions on further Russian oligarchs and members of the nation’s elite.

They embrace 70 Russian corporations and different entities like a number of models of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Info Transmission Issues and the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Management Sciences and one Belarus entity.

The businesses added embrace a number of plane crops and the Voronezh Joint Inventory Plane Firm, one of many largest Russian factories for passenger and cargo plane, in accordance with a number of analysis reviews.

Additionally added was the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, which has manufactured practically 7.000 plane of greater than 20 varieties since 1934 and produces the MC-21 household of airliners.

In whole the Commerce Division has now added 322 entities to its financial blacklist for help of Russia’s army since February.

“The U.S. and our worldwide companions have put in place robust, sweeping restrictions on Russia’s skill to acquire the objects and applied sciences it must maintain its army aggression,” stated Underneath Secretary of Commerce for Trade and Safety Alan Estevez.

Of the 71, 66 had been decided to be army finish customers. Additionally added had been the Ilyushin Aviation Advanced Department, the St. Petersburg Shipbuilding Establishment and the Particular Analysis Bureau for Automation of Marine Researches Far East Department Russian Academy of Sciences.