What has been sanctioned so far?
*Last updated 25th February 2025
- Asset and travel freezes for high-profile individuals and those belonging to certain companies, institutions, or sectors.
- Visa access for individuals of a particular profile.
Economic restriction on the transfer of funds or investments, including:
A SWIFT ban on 23 Russian banks.
Prohibition on supplying Euro notes to Russia.
The block on foreign investment from Russian people and of Russian companies from European people.
The restriction on providing crypto wallets to Russian people.
Restrictions on the trade of commodities.
- Prohibitions on services, such as IT, legal, marketing, advertising, financial, and other technical industries.
- The broadcasting of some Russian media outlets.
- Oil, coal, and liquified propane from Russia, and the supply of related exports to Russia.
- The sanctions against Russian iron and steel.
- Imports of Russian aluminium and alloys thereof.
- Imports of wood, paper, cement, rubber, and plastics from Russia.
- importing of Russian seafood, and liquor.
Blocks on Russian transport, including:
The closure of EU airspace to Russian aircraft, and some carriers known to fly domestically within Russia.
Restriction on road transport operators, trailers, and semi-trailers registered in Russia.
No access to Russian vessels in EU ports, including ship-to-ship transfers in EU waters.
Additional maritime restriction for non-Russian vessel that have been reported to be part of Russia’s shadow fleet.
Restrictions on shipments to and from Russian ports.
Restricted supply of exports to Russia in the aviation, marine, and space sectors.
- Purchase, import, or transfer of non-industrial diamonds.
- Export controls on dual-use goods and goods that can be used in the development and production of drones, such as electric transformers, static converters and inductors, video game controllers, and aluminium capacitors.
Note that these sanctions are generally mirrored for Belarus-related trade; however, there are some variances.
The EU’s sanctions against Russia also include individuals and entities in China, Korea, and other Asian countries who are reportedly supplying prohibited technology to Russia.
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More information on specific Russian sanction packages from the EU since April 2022
The 16th package of Russian sanctions – 24th February 2025
Included in the 16th package on the third anniversary of the 2022 invasion, the EU sanctioned:
- 48 individuals and 35 entities.
- 74 vessel that are part of Russia’s shadow fleet.
- Banks and institutions that use the 'System for Transfer of Financial Messages'.
- Further export controls for industrial, energy, and technology products.
- Suspension of broadcast licences for eight Media outlets.
- An extension of the air carrier ban to include some carriers flying domestically within Russia.
- New restrictions for entities operating within Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
The 15th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 16th December 2024
Included in the 15th package of the EU’s sanctions against Russia were:
- 54 individuals and 30 entities.
- Port access for 52 vessels that are part of Russia’s shadow fleet.
- Export controls for 32 new entities.
- The removal of recognition of Russian court rulings in the EU. This relates to Article 248 of the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, which allowed Russian courts to have jurisdiction over Russian entities involved with foreign sanction disputes.
The 14th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 24th June 2024
- 69 individuals and 47 entities.
- Restrictions on LNG reloading within the EU for transhipment to Russian-related operations in a third country.
- A ban on investments relating to third-country LNG projects involving Russian entities.
- Greater restrictions on air carriers.
- A ban on port access and services for vessels working with Russia’s war operations.
- Imports of helium from Russia.
- Greater restrictions relating to circumnavigation of existing trade and financial sanctions.
The 13th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 23rd February 2024
On the second anniversary of the invasion, the Russia’s sanctions from the EU were extended with:
- 106 individuals and 88 entities
- Further restriction on unmanned drones and their components, and dual-use goods which could contribute to the war.
- Aluminium components which could be converted for drone use.
The 12th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 18th December 2023
- Strict and definitive burden of proof required for companies who are a risk of circumnavigation. This included more uniform definitions and penalties as per a proposal to crack down on sanction violations from earlier that year.
- Better guidelines for working with third countries to avoid circumnavigation, including a “no Russia” clause when underwriting contracts to third-country customers.
- A phased ban on the import, purchase, or transfer of non-industrial diamonds from Russia.
- A prohibition on importing liquefied propane.
The 11th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 23rd June 2023
This round of sanctions did not include further goods, but added more pressure to traders for proof:
- Prohibited transit of dual-use goods and technology via Russia.
- Stricter EU export controls.
- 71 individuals and 33 entities.
The 10th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 25th February 2023
On the first anniversary of the invasion, the Russian sanctions by the EU extended to include:
- 87 individuals and 34 entities.
- Exports of critical technology and industrial goods.
- Imports of asphalt and synthetic rubber.
- The provision of gas storage to Russian entities.
- Transit through Russia of dual-use technology.
- The prohibition of Russian individuals to hold positions within governing bodies of EU infrastructures.
The 9th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 16th December 2022
- 141 individuals and 49 entities.
- Exports of drone engines.
- Exports of dual-use goods and technology.
- Investments in the mining sector.
- The provision of advertising, market research, and public opinion polling.
The 8th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 6th October 2022
- 30 individuals and seven entities.
- Restrictions on dual-use goods and technology information.
- Additional prohibition of general goods and service provision to Russia.
- A price cap on Russian oil to third countries.
The 7th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 21st July 2022
- 54 individuals and nine entities.
- The purchase, import, or transfer of gold and jewellery originating in Russia.
The 6th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 3rd June 2022
- 65 individuals and 18 entities.
- A SWIFT ban on three Russian banks.
- A ban on imports of petroleum products and crude oil from Russia.
- The suspension of broadcasting licences for three Russian outlets.
The 5th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 8th April 2022
- 217 individuals and 18 entities
- A prohibition on imports of coal and other solid fossil fuels from Russia.
- A ban on all Russian vessels from accessing EU ports.
- A ban on Russian road carriers in the EU.
- A ban on importing Russian wood, cement, seafood, and liquor.
- Exports of jet fuel.
- Deposits to crypto wallets.
The 4th package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 8th April 2022
- 15 individuals and nine entities.
- A ban on providing credit rating services to any Russian individual or entity.
- A ban on investing in the Russian energy sector.
- Restrictions on trading iron, steel, and luxury goods.
The 3rd package of Russian sanctions from the EU – 28th February 2022
- 26 individuals and one entity.
- A ban on transactions with the Russian Central Bank.
- A ban on access to EU airspace and airports for Russian air carriers.
The 1st and 2nd packages of Russian sanctions from the EU – 24th and 25th February 2022
- 351 individuals of the Russian State Duma, and 27 other individuals.
- Restrictions on:
- Access to the EU’s capital and financial markets for Russian individuals.
- Energy and transport trade and services.
- The movement of dual-use goods.
- Visas for Russian individuals.
- Export financial activity.
Pre-2022 sanctions against Russia by the EU
Before the amplified invasion of Ukraine by Russia in April 2022, there were sanctions against individuals and entities related to political unrest in Eastern Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea in 2014:
- Travel bans and asset freezes on individuals involved in undermining Ukraine’s territory. This expanded between 2014 and 2022 to include Russian officials, Crimean leaders, and other separatist individuals.
- Limited access to the EU’s financial markets for Russian-state-owned banks: Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Vnesheconombank, and Rosselkhozbank.
- A ban on exporting high-tech drilling equipment and services to Russia.
- Restrictions on technology transfer to the arctic, deep-water, and oil exploration projects that involve Russian entities.
- An embargo on arms exports.
- Restrictions on investment in Crimea, purchasing Crimean goods, and providing services to Crimea.
These initial sanctions were under review every six months, and laid the foundation for the intense expansion of Russian sanctions by the EU after April 2022.
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