On 24 February 2023, the first anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the US Department of State announced a package of sanctions designations under the executive order blocking property of persons engaged in harmful foreign activities of the Russian government (E.O. 14024). The State Department describes designating over 60 individuals and entities, including Russian officials and entities in Russia's advanced-technology sector, three enterprises that develop and operate Russia's nuclear weapons, and three civil nuclear entities within the Rosatom structure. The Treasury Department announced parallel designations, including four entities in the metals and mining sector.

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Mechanism

Blocking sanctions under E.O. 14024: designated persons' US-jurisdiction property is frozen and US persons are barred from dealings with them. The State Department leg targets government administration, advanced-technology suppliers to intelligence collection, and nuclear-sector enterprises (weapons developers plus three civil entities under Rosatom). GTA logs the measure as "controls on commercial transactions and investment instruments" with uranium and thorium among the affected HS sectors; GTA's own count ("48 Russian entities") differs from the State Department's "over 60", so the State figure is used here as the issuer's own statement.

Scope note

The State page describes the designations; entity-level lists are in the State/OFAC notices. This filing does not enumerate individual designees. Register-state only: no claim is made about the volume of uranium trade affected.

Downstream implications

Rosatom-structure designations sit alongside the later US ban on Russian enriched uranium imports (2024) in the register's nuclear-fuel chain; they add counterparty risk for any company transacting with the named civil nuclear entities.

Sources

Primary: US Department of State — The United States Takes Sweeping Actions on the One Year Anniversary of Russia's War Against Ukraine · Federal Register — Notice of 2023 Department of State Sanctions Actions (E.O. 14024)

Secondary: US Treasury — Fact sheet: One Year of U.S. Sanctions on Russia and Its Enablers · Global Trade Alert — intervention 116351

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