EU expands list of sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine

The EU has expanded its list of sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine. The list of the additional 57 individuals and 10 companies and organisations has been posted in the EU’s official journal. This decision comes in addition to the “maintenance and alignment” package of sanctions adopted by the Council on 21 July 2022.

Personal sanctions under this latest package of sanctions include Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow mayor, Stanislav Chemezov, son of the head of Rostec, Yury Chaika, member of the Russian Federation Council and former prosecutor-general, well-known Russian actors Sergei Bezrukov and Vladimir Mashkov, Alexander Zaldostanov, leader of the ‘Night Wolves’ motorcycle club, and other Russians who actively support Russian aggression against Ukraine. 

The sanctioned entities include Sberbank, a major financial institution, the ‘Night Wolves’, companies operating in the military sector or the shipbuilding industry or involved in the stealing of Ukrainian grain, and a variety of entities that have disseminated pro-Kremlin and anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

The all-Russia ‘Young Army’ Military Patriotic Social Movement, the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), Russkiy Mir Foundation and the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund are also on the sanctions list.

A number of individuals involved in the leadership of the territories of Ukraine occupied by the Russian authorities have also been put on the sanctions list.

Altogether, EU restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine now apply to a total of 1,212 individuals and 108 entities. Those designated are subject to an asset freeze and EU citizens and companies are forbidden from making funds available to them. Natural persons are additionally subject to a travel ban, which prevents them from entering or transiting through EU territories.

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