The United States on Thursday sanctioned entities and vessels accused of shipping liquefied natural gas from Russia's blacklisted LNG project.

Arctic LNG 2 was envisaged as Russia's largest LNG plant and a flagship project that was supposed to help the country become the world's leading LNG producer.

Sanctions target ‘ice-class’ vessels intended to transport liquefied natural gas cargoes, putting off global buyers

Russia said on Thursday it would take retaliatory measures against U.S. media in response to U.S. charges against Russian media executives and state broadcaster RT, which Washington has accused of trying to influence the 2024 presidential election.

Moscow will target U.S. media in response to the United States actions against Russian state broadcaster RT, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday filed money-laundering charges against two RT employees for what was described as a scheme to hire a U.