EU Agrees to Sanction 1,600 People and Entities Linked to Russia's War
The package expands the EU blacklist to about 4,500 names and adds travel bans, asset freezes and funding prohibitions.
- On Monday, EU foreign ministers are set to formally approve nearly 1,600 new sanctions designations targeting Russia's military-industrial complex and officials involved in elections held in occupied Ukrainian territories.
- President Donald Trump announced a deal Friday to ease war-related sanctions on Russian diesel, aiming to lower domestic energy costs despite Congress passing bipartisan legislation weeks earlier intended to restrict Moscow's revenue.
- European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas denounced the fuel agreement on Saturday, stating that "suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war." Europe will maintain pressure despite Washington's pivot.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the U.S.-brokered fuel pact as a "weak decision," while U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff reported "constructive discussions" in Miami on Friday aimed at de-escalating the war ahead of winter.
- Russian strikes targeted residential neighborhoods in Zaporizhzhia on Friday with five guided aerial bombs, killing at least 15 people including three children, as civilian deaths exceeded 80 across two days amid diplomatic tensions.
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Mumbai shipping manager among 3 sanctioned by EU for Russia trade
A Mumbai-based commercial ship manager was among three individuals and nine entities sanctioned by the European Union for being involved in the import of sanctioned goods to Russia and circumventing EU sanctions related to oil and financial transactions
Brussels, 15 Oct (EFE).- The Council of the European Union adopted on Thursday new sanctions against three persons and nine entities involved in the import into Russia of goods subject to restrictions and in the circumvention of European sanctions on oil and financial transactions.The lists point to logistics companies, customs [...] Entry The EU sanctions three persons and nine entities for circumventing sanctions against Russia was first publi…
The EU has never put as many people and organisations on a sanction list as it is today because of the war against Ukraine. However, it was not planned that this might seem like an answer to Trump, but it is welcome.
How diesel became the new geopolitical battleground, and what it means for the world
Diesel export bans shift part of the economic cost of a geopolitical crisis onto countries that had little or no role in causing it, particularly poorer, fuel-importing economies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
EU adopts nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia
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