New US sanctions project contains a potentially fatal blow to the Russian banking system. Such a verdict was made in the British bank Barclays after studying the package of measures presented by a group of US senators on August 2. While the provisions of the document are not fully known, but what leaked out of the congress threatens with serious consequences for Russia. "The most severe version of sanctions against Russia is a total ban on all transactions with Russian banks," believes Barclays analyst Lisa Eremenko. "This may be even more terrible than the ban on investing in Russia's national debt," Bloomberg quotes her.

The expert notes that in the end, Sberbank, VTB, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank, Promsvyazbank, Rosselkhozbank.

Their accounts are proposed to be blocked.

And given that the Russian economy is focused on the export of energy resources and metals, limiting the activities of banks can have far-reaching consequences. At the same time, the ban on transactions with the Russian national debt will not bring significant problems to Moscow, Moody's analyst Christine Lindow said.. She also pointed out that after imposing sanctions on RusAl, Russia began to reduce its investments in US treasury securities, so the Russian economy became less dependent on the dollar and external threats. A new package of anti-Russian sanctions should be considered by US lawmakers in September.