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Russia on Thursday added Vice President Kamala Harris and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to its list of Americans now banned from entering the country.
The sanctions list, which has been updated to include those two people and 28 other US officials, businessmen and journalists, also targets Assistant Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, according to Reuters.
“These individuals will be denied entry to the Russian Federation indefinitely,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Vice President Kamala Harris, seen here on April 15, is now barred from entering Russia. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
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In mid-March, amid the ongoing war with Ukraine, Russia for the first time imposed “retaliatory sanctions” on President Biden, a number of his top officials, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 on Facebook’s impact on the financial services and housing sectors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The people originally on the sanctions list were President Biden, Hunter Biden, Clinton, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, CIA Director William Burns, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Deputy Assistant National Security Advisor Duleep Singh, Agency for International Development Director Samantha Power, Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo, and Export-Import Bank President and Chairman Reta Joe Lewis.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine takes place on the 57th day.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.