EU adopts measures to respond to Russia’s military aggression
- targeted restrictive measures
- restrictions on economic relations with the non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
- financial restrictions
The second package includes:
- individual sanctions against Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov and the members of the Russian State Duma, among others
- economic sanctions
The third package includes:
- provisions of equipment and supplies to the Ukrainian armed forces through the European Peace Facility
- a ban on overflight of EU airspace and on access to EU airports by Russian carriers of all kinds
- a ban on the transactions with the Russian Central Bank
- a SWIFT ban for seven Russian banks
- the suspension of broadcasting in the EU of state-owned media Russia Today and Sputnik
- individual and economic sanctions against Belarus
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