Russia has placed sanctions on United States President Joe Biden, reported news agency AFP.
Russia's foreign ministry said on March 15 that US President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to US sanctions.
Sanctions have also been placed on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CIA Director William Burns, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and ten other administration officials and political figures from the country.
The measure "is the consequence of the extremely Russophobic policy pursued by the current US administration", the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Several countries including the United States have imposed sanctions on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The latest US sanctions target more individuals in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s power structure, including tougher penalties against the leader of Kremlin-allied Belarus and his family.
Other new sanctions imposed on March 15 target a judge and investigator in Russia's prosecution of two outspoken critics of alleged corruption and rights abuses.
Some of Tuesday's sanctions were brought under the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 act of Congress that authorises sanctions against those engaged in human rights abuses.
Tuesday's sanctions show the US 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 three-week-old invasion of Ukraine.
(With inputs from agencies)
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