Overview

• The measures place asset freezes, director disqualifications and trust‑services restrictions on Rosneft and Lukoil for the first time under UK rules.
• Officials added more than 40 shadow‑fleet tankers, four Chinese oil terminals and India’s Nayara Energy to the blacklist to disrupt rerouted crude flows.
• The package also targets eight specialized LNG carriers and China’s Beihai LNG terminal, with a new UK ban on oil products refined in third countries from Russian crude.
• London expanded sanctions to Russian banks and the National Payment Card System, while hitting suppliers of drone and missile electronics across China, India, Turkey, Thailand and Singapore.
• Rosneft and Lukoil together export about 3.1 million barrels per day, and UK ministers are pressing G7 partners in Washington for tighter enforcement with further steps signaled.