The European Union announced a new package of sanctions against Russia. The decision came after a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Luxembourg, where the bloc agreed to add roughly 1,600 new measures targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex.
More than half of the newly approved measures are specifically aimed at disrupting the production chain for ballistic missiles. The goal is to make the missile-building process harder, slower, and more costly.
⚡️ EU votes through largest ever Russia sanctions list. "This is the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war," chief EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said, adding that more than half of the roughly 1600 listings "are connected to the production chain for ballistic missiles." https://t.co/ykbcmtiXnV
EU High Representative Kaja Kallas presented the sanctions package following the ministerial meeting. She described the move as "This is the largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war," underscoring the scale of the response. In her remarks, Kallas linked the sanctions directly to their intended impact, saying: "We are making it significantly harder, slower and more costly for Russia to produce the weapons it is using to kill Ukrainians."
EU High Representative Kaja Kallas presented the sanctions package following the ministerial meeting.
The approximately 1,600 new sanctions translate into a broad net that captures entities involved in the military-industrial complex. The sanctions are intended to make Russia's weapon production harder, slower, and more costly.
The EU has approved its 22nd package of sanctions against Russia — the largest in recent years According to Kaja Kallas, this is the biggest expansion of the sanctions list since 2022. The restrictions target 826 legal entities and 743 individuals linked to Russia’s military-industrial complex. More than half of the new sanctions are related to the production of ballistic missiles. The EU hopes to make Russian weapons production slower, more difficult and more expensive. The sanctions will also target 77 officials who ran for the State Duma in the occupied territories of Ukraine.