On 15 June 2026, the Council of the EU Council) adopted a further set of restrictive measures in response to what it terms the Russian Federation’s (Russia’s) war of aggression against Ukraine. The measures add 34 individuals and 47 entities to the EU’s asset-freeze and travel-ban lists across three sanctions regimes, and they renew, on the Council’s annual review, the measures responding to the annexation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. This is not a new numbered sanctions package but a batch of fresh designations; the broader twenty-first package is still to come.1
1Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/1364 of 15 June 2026 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1361 of 15 June 2026 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014, both concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine; vid., Council of the EU, Russia’s War of Aggression against Ukraine: New EU Sanctions Target Energy Revenues, the Military-Industrial Complex, Propaganda and Human Rights Violations (Press Release, 15 June 2026).
