Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the European Union has begun preparing a 20th sanctions package that should be ready within about a month.
- Ukraine will propose listing Russian entities and individuals still profiting from energy resources and updating measures against those involved in abducting Ukrainian children.
- Zelenskyy urged substantially increased pressure on the supply chains and evasion schemes sustaining Russian military production, assigning a leading role to Ukraine’s foreign ministry.
- The EU’s 19th package recently broadened restrictions to banks, energy revenues, crypto platforms and intermediary banks that facilitate evasion, though prior packages have been slowed by objections from member states such as Hungary and Slovakia.
- Kyiv announced new national sanctions on eight senior Kremlin officials, including Kirill Dmitriev, and on five Russian publishing houses.