As announced in its press release, on 24 February 2025, exactly three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU published its 16th package of sanctions against Russia in the Official Journal. The package entered into force on 25 February 2025. The EU also introduced new measures against Belarus and Crimea and Sevastopol and certain non-Government controlled areas of Ukraine, largely aligning with the Russia sanctions measures. Aside from additional designated person listings, this latest package…
In an 18 March 2021 statement released by the German Foreign Ministry, the Group of Seven (G7) nations have announced that they remain fully committed to the implementation of sanctions on Russia over the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. The group’s Foreign Ministers also reaffirmed their unwavering support for and commitment to the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and denounced Russia’s alleged occupation. See the full statement accessible here for further details.
On 19 February 2021, Ukraine imposed[1] personal sanctions against a number of companies and individuals doing business in the Crimea and on the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (“Temporary Occupied Territories”) and suspected of terrorism financing, as well as on certain Russian-owned businesses. The sanctions were imposed against: Trading House Donskiye Ugli LLC, which allegedly sold coal produced on the Temporary Occupied Territories to the Russian FederationNovoshakhtinsky Refinery Plant JSC for allegedly selling…
On 28 January 2020, the European Council added seven persons to the list of those subject to restrictive measures (asset freezes and travel bans) over actions ‘undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine’ (EU Press Release here). The new designations arise as a result of the organisation of Russian local elections on 8 September 2019 in the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol in Ukraine. The…