Effective as of 30 May 2023, Ukraine introduced a new set of personal sanctions against 51 individuals and 220 legal entities.[1] The sanctions affect the following categories of persons, among others: Russian providers of offline maps: 2GIS (2GIS Local Search Limited (Cyprus)), Navitel (Navitel s.r.o. (Czech Republic) and LLC “Navitel Ukraine” (Ukraine)) and City Guide (LLC “MIT Geomatics”) Russian food delivery and taxi services: LLC “O2O Holding” Russian producers of unmanned aerial vehicles: LLC “Aerob”,…
Effective as of 16 May 2023, Ukraine introduced five new sets of personal sanctions against 502 individuals and 860 legal entities.[1] The sanctions affect the following categories of persons, among others: Russian defense industry companies: LLC “69th Repair Plant of Rocket and Artillery Weapons”, LLC “Spetsvoenprom”, PJSC “Kirov Plant “Mayak”, etc. Russian and Belarusian engineering enterprises: JSC “Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise named after V.V. Chernyshev”, JSC “Kazan Compressor Machine Building Plant”, Open JSC “Gomel Plant of…
Following the inaugural post for the new Sanctions Enforcement Around the World blog series focused on enforcement trends in Australia, we now turn our attention to the sanctions enforcement trends in Ukraine. 1. What are recent sanctions enforcement trends in Ukraine? In response to the full-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine has significantly enhanced both its sanctions legislation and enforcement practice. To recap, the following are the key legislative developments aiming…
Effective as of 18 April 2023, Ukraine introduced two new sets of personal sanctions against 438 individuals and 254 legal entities, mainly targeting the Russian IT and sports industries.[1] According to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the new sanctions package targets, inter alia, Russian IT companies sponsoring terror or providing digital opportunities to continue the Russian aggression against Ukraine.[2] The Decisions impose extensive sanctions, including asset freeze; ban on trade operations; ban on transit of…