WASHINGTON, April 11. /TASS/. The US Administration considers thwarting Russia’s potential attempts to circumvent Western sanctions one of the key elements of its strategy this year, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen said in her opening remarks to the spring session of International Monetary Fund and World Bank, delivered in Washington Tuesday.

"Over the past year, our campaign has systematically degraded Russia’s military-industrial complex and helped reduce the revenues that Russia can use to fund its war," she said, according to Reuters. "This year, a central piece of our strategy is to take further actions to disrupt Russia’s attempts to evade our sanctions".