The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has imposed at a session on Thursday sanctions against individuals and legal entities involved in the construction and operations of the bridge over the Kerch Strait, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said at a briefing following the session.
The NSDC press service said later that those sanctions were imposed on six individuals and 24 legal entities.
Sanctions were also imposed on 18 people involved in the issuance of unlawful court rulings to deprive the Crimea diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine of its property in the temporary occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, it said.
According to the NSDC, 52 people holding senior positions in Crimea were also sanctioned for doing considerable damage to the national interests and security of the Ukrainian people, the NSDC said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has imposed sanctions on two Ukrainian TV channels, namely, Pershyi Nezalezhnyi and UkrLive, the presidential press service said in a statement.
“To endorse the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) resolution dated December 28, 2021, ‘On special personal economic and other restrictions (sanctions)’,” the presidential order said.
In particular, the president endorsed the NSDC resolution regarding sanctions on Novyny Media Holding, Time Media, and Teleprostir.
The order takes effect on the publishing date.
From now on, Ukrainian officials will be prohibited from issuing any licenses and allowing use of radio frequencies in Ukraine to the sanctioned channels.
Legal entities owning the channels will be prohibited from conducting financial operations in the Ukrainian territory and using accounts in Ukrainian banks.
The sanctions will be valid for five years.
As many as 153 members of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada have endorsed the initiative of Vladlen Nekliudov of the parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People party requesting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky impose sanctions on the enterprises of the Roshen confectionery corporation for “financing the budget of the aggressor state Russian Federation.”
The relevant decision was made at a parliamentary session on Friday.
Roshen, a leading confectionary producer in Ukraine, operates confectionery factories in Kyiv, Mariupol, Kremenchuk, Boryspil, Vinnytsia, Klaipeda (Lithuania), and Bonbonetti Choco in Hungary. The operations of the factory in Lipetsk, Russia, were halted on April 1, 2017.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, Roshen’s end beneficiary is Poroshenko’s son Oleksiy.
In December 2016, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow froze the assets of Roshen’s Lipetsk factory as part of a criminal case of embezzlement from the Russian budget.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree that puts into effect the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine decision on the imposition of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) dated July 16, 2021 in relation to six individuals.
Relevant presidential decree No. 304/2021 dated July 23 was released on the presidential website.
Thus, sanctions for a period of three years are imposed against the following persons: Tatiana Bakalchuk and Vladislav Bakalchuk (co-founders of Wildberries LLC).
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has approved by decree the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on the introduction of personal sanctions against Ukrainian and Russian businessmen Dmytro Firtash and Pavlo Fuks, the press service of the head of state said.
“To put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine dated June 18, 2021 ‘On the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions),'” the document says.
In total, on the proposal of the Security Service of Ukraine, sanctions were imposed against 538 individuals and 540 legal entities.
Corresponding decree No. 266/2021 of June 24 was published on the website of the head of state and comes into force on the day of its promulgation.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky by decree No. 264 has put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of June 18 on the extension and introduction of new sanctions against 55 Russian banks, payment systems and the so-called “central banks” from ORDLO at the suggestion of the National Bank of Ukraine.
According to the document posted on the website of the head of state, this list still includes, in particular, Bank of Moscow, Gazprom Bank, Bank Rossiya, Bank VTB, State Corporation VEB.RF, Sberbank Russia, as well as payment systems MoneyTo, BLIZKO, ANELIK, Kolibri.
With regard to banks that have subsidiaries in Ukraine, the restriction is to prevent the withdrawal of capital from the country.
