WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- As U.S. threat of sanctions on Russia will take into effect around Aug. 22, U.S. Under Secretary of Treasury Sigal Mandelker said Tuesday that Washington will impose "much more economic pain" to Russia if it does not change its global behaviors significantly.
Speaking before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Mandelker said that "though Russia's malign activities continue, we believe its adventurism undoubtedly has been checked by the knowledge that we can bring much more economic pain to bear using our powerful range of authorities - and that we will not hesitate to do so if its conduct does not demonstrably and significantly change."
"The significance of our actions and other financial measures must ultimately be measured in terms of their strategic impacts," she added.
In a separate hearing, Assistant Treasury Secretary Marshall Billingslea told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that "Treasury has made countering Russian aggression a top priority" and "will continue to do its part to impose costs in response to Russian malign activity, leveraging all of the tools and authorities that we have."
Since January 2017, the Trump administration has sanctioned 217 Russian-related individuals and entities for a broad range of conduct.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Treasury announced to sanction several Russia-related individuals and entities over their involvement in actions against the U.S. sanctions.
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