EU extends personal sanctions for 6 months over Russian aggression in Ukraine

The EU Council's website states.

The EU reminded that these existing sanctions include travel restrictions for individuals, blocking of their assets, and a ban on providing funds or other economic resources to individuals and legal entities on the list.

They emphasize that the sanctions, many of which were imposed in response to Russia's ongoing, unjustified and unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine, will be applied to more than 2,200 individuals and legal entities.

At the same time, the European Council decided not to renew the restrictions for two individuals and to remove five deceased persons from the list.

“After 24 February 2022, in response to Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, the EU massively expanded sanctions against Russia with the aim of significantly weakening Russia's economic base, depriving it of critical technologies and markets, and significantly curtailing its ability to wage war. On 27 June 2024, the European Council adopted conclusions in which it reconfirmed the continued support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders and reconfirmed the EU’s unwavering commitment to providing continued political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support to Ukraine and its people for as long as it takes and as intensely as needed. Russia must not prevail,” the statement says.

• In July of this year, the EU extended restrictive measures against Russia for another 6 months, until January 31, 2025, in response to Russia's armed aggression.