In the coming days, the US Commerce Department will also take further action to degrade Russia’s defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors by adding 120 entities in Russia and Belarus to the Entity List, bringing the number of Russian and Belarusian parties added to the list to over 200 since the invasion began. White House director of communications Kate Bedingfield stated this at a press briefing on Thursday.

“Being added to this list means that these entities can no longer get U.S. cutting-edge technology without a license, which will—which will in most, if not all, of these cases be denied,” she added.

“We will prevent them from procuring Western technology and evading our severe sanctions,” Bedingfield noted. “We’re also expanding our sanctions authority to target additional sectors of the Russian economy important to Putin, including aerospace, maritime, and the electronics sectors.”

“Compared to the same time period last year, U.S. exports to Russia of items subject to our new export controls have decreased by 99 percent by value,” added the White House director of communications.