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

More information:

• Timeline – EU restrictive measures in response to the crisis in Ukraine (background information)
• EU response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (background information)
• EU sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine