New U.S. sanctions Tuesday targeted more individuals in Russian President Vladimir Putin's power structure, including senior Russian military officials and the leader of Kremlin-allied Belarus.
A judge and an investigator in Russia's prosecution of two outspoken critics of alleged corruption and rights abuses are also a focus of the sanctions. Some of the new sanctions were brought under the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 act of Congress that authorizes sanctions against those engaged in human rights abuses.
Tuesday's sanctions show the U.S. going after more individual officials after laying down some of the toughest sanctions of modern times against Russian institutions and top figures over Putin's nearly 3-week-old invasion of Ukraine.