The United States targeted six Russian individuals and eight organizations on Friday over Moscow’s “ongoing aggression in Ukraine,” the U.S. Treasury said in a statement. The action targeted those who played a role in Russian attacks on Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea’s Kerch Strait, Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its backing of illegitimate separatist government elections in eastern Ukraine, the statement said. “The United States and our transatlantic partners will not allow Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine to go unchecked,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “This joint initiative with ... (full story)