The United States sanctioned a number of new companies from China and Russia for allegedly abetting the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.

On Monday, the Department of Commerce implicated nine entities for being involved in a scheme to supply the blacklisted Russian firm Special Technology Center with the necessary parts to make war drones.

Among those firms were Asia Pacific Links Ltd., based in Hong Kong, and SMT-iLOGIC LLC, a Russian import company. The pair had been the target of an earlier sanctions hit in May.

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