More than 15% of sanctioned companies will be under restrictions for life
184 companies in Ukraine are currently under NSDC sanctions, according to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Most of these businesses are located in Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Most often, these companies are engaged in wholesale trade, except for the trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Most of the companies appeared on the sanctions list after a series of updates in 2024. So this year, the number of such businesses has almost tripled: by 119 companies. By contrast, the fewest companies were added to the sanctions list in 2023 – only 10 (5.4%).
Every second company in the total number will be under sanctions until 2027. Another 19.4%, or 36 businesses, will be released from the restrictions no earlier than 2034. The sanctions are in place for an indefinite period of time, with 15.1% or 28 companies.
The majority of these businesses are wholesale trade, except for trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles – 61 companies (33.2%). Another 10.3% are engaged in specialized construction work – 19 companies.
Film production and construction of buildings are in the top three, with 7 companies or 3.8% each.
Most businesses under sanctions are located in Kyiv – 102 in total. There are significantly fewer companies in Odesa region – 17 or 9.2%. Lviv region is also among the leaders in terms of the number of companies – 13 or 7.1%.
Among the sanctioned companies, the top three in terms of revenue in 2023 are as follows:
The sanctions list can only be left if the President of Ukraine signs the relevant decision of the National Security and Defense Council or if the sanctions against the company have expired and have not been renewed. The most profitable businesses that have already left the sanctions list are:
Detailed information about the companies under the NSDC sanctions can be found in the special register of the Openatabot. The relevant information will also be available in the regular company card on our website.
https://opendatabot.ua/analytics/rnbo-companies
Two citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Germany, as well as 24 companies associated with them, have added to the sanctions list of smugglers of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), council’s Secretary Oleksiy Danilov has said.
“At one time we started to work with that category of people who are popularly called smugglers. Not all of them were included in the preliminary lists. These lists were supplemented. This time, the list was formed not by the State Security Service of Ukraine, but by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, headed by Minister Denys Monastyrsky,” Danilov said at a briefing following the NSDC meeting on Friday evening.
According to him, the list includes three individuals: a German citizen born in 1986, Alexander Akst, citizen of Ukraine, born in 1974 Valeriy Falkovsky, as well as a citizen of Ukraine, born in 1984, Vladyslav Studenets. “In addition, some 24 companies affiliated with these gentlemen were also included in this list,” the NSDC secretary said.
He said the NSDC does not intend to stop its work to combat smugglers. “We will track them, and whoever will continue to deal with this shameful case, he will fall under the sanctions of the National Security and Defense Council,” Danilov said.
