The US said the measures will target Russian businesses, as well as state officials and oligarchs.
Western leaders are set announce a further set of sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, the US has said.
Calls for further sanctions have grown in recent days amid allegations of Russian atrocities in Bucha. The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday that the Sberbank, Russia's largest lender, may be among those targeted. "In coordination with the G7 and the EU, an additional sweeping package of sanctions measures that will impose costs on Russia to send it further down the road of economic, financial, and technological isolation," Ms Psaki said.including a potential ban on imports of Russian coal and additional measures targeting state-owned businesses and officials and oligarchs in Moscow.
And Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said she intends to close EU ports to Russian vessels and ban Russian and Belarusian road transport operators from the region.
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