EU Imposes 10th Sanctions Package on Russia
The EU adopted its 10th sanctions package on Russia, the European Council announced. The restrictions include imposing a travel ban and asset freeze on another 87 individuals and 34 entities, as well as various trade sanctions, including additional export bans on critical technology and industrial goods.
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The additions include "key decision makers," including members of Russia's Federal Council, Russian deputy ministers and government officials; individuals and entities in the Russian military sector, such as Wagner Group commanders Hayk Gasparyan and Anton Elizarov; individuals allegedly responsible for the forced deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children; "proxy authorities," such as prosecutors in the nongovernment controlled areas of Ukraine; writers and media executives; Iranian nationals involved in the supply of drones to Russia; and businessmen in sectors that provide key sources of revenue to the Russian government, including Alfa-Bank, Rosbank and Tinkoff Bank.
The council also added eight individuals and seven entities to the human rights sanctions list for their ties to the Wagner Group and involvement in serious human rights abuses in the Central African Republic and Sudan. Ivan Maslov, head of the Wagner Group in Mali, also was added under the Mali sanctions regime.
As part of the trade sanctions, the council imposed export bans on electronics, specialized vehicles, machine parts, spare parts for trucks and jet engines and construction-sector goods. The council further extended the list of restricted items that could boost Russia's military and technological enhancement by adding electronic parts used in Russian weapons systems, certain rare earth materials, electronic integrated circuits and thermal cameras. More restrictions were placed on imports of goods that generate revenues for Russia, including bitumen and synthetic rubber, and another 96 entities were subjected to more intensive export restrictions, including Iranian drone manufacturers.
The council laid out new enforcement and anti-circumvention measures, introducing an obligation for aircraft operators to notify non-scheduled flights to their national authorities; more detailed reporting obligations on funds that belong to sanctioned individuals and entities and have been frozen; new reporting obligations to EU member states and to the European Commission on immobilized reserves and assets of the Russian Central Bank; and prohibitions on the transit of dual-use goods and technology exported from the EU via Russian territory.
The EU also barred Russian nationals or residents from holding any posts in the governing bodies of owners and operators of critical infrastructures and the provision of gas storage capacity in the EU to Russian nationals.