Moscow’s message to European business: your Russian assets are now leverage against your governments
ISW expects decisions on which firms to seize to depend entirely on Russia's relations with each company's home country.
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“You wanted our land. You lost your refineries and your fleet.”—Ukraine’s anniversary message to Russia
Zelenskyy added that the country that wanted Ukraine off the map has written itself out of the world's future agenda.
Ukraine: 18 of 26 Russian oil and stolen-grain ships face no sanctions
HUR says the oil tankers run for firms like Lukoil and Rosneft, while the dry-cargo ships load stolen grain at occupied ports such as Sevastopol.
Greece blocked a gas ban, France and Italy softened an entry ban—now Brussels tries 1,600 companies helping Russia’s war
Bloomberg sources says the proposed list covers firms feeding Russia's military industry, and the work stayed out of public view.
Euractiv: Italy and Greece win a fur pass for Russia inside the EU’s newest sanctions round
The two nations buy more Russian sable than anyone else in the bloc, and they lobbied to keep the pelts flowing while finished coats stay off-limits.
Washington taxes Russian goods at the same rate as Norway’s
It is a blanket forced-labor measure, not a Russia policy—and the sanctions that would hurt Moscow are still stuck in Congress.
EU adopts largest sanctions package on Russia: 218 names and 100+ banks and crypto platforms among those on the list
Banks, refineries, drone parts, crypto exchanges: the bloc's 21st sanctions package reaches further into Russia's economy than any round before it.
US Sen. Graham’s Russia sanctions bill sat stalled for over a year—now the Senate has the votes to pass it
Lindsey Graham told colleagues he had the White House on board just hours before his sudden death.
Trade, banks, energy, crypto—the EU keeps its full Russia economic sanctions wall standing to 2027
The Council also held open the door to a 21st package still being negotiated.
Russia’s former soldiers may face a locked EU border—if France and Italy stop balking
The two governments worry the measure could open the door to keeping every Russian out, sources told Bloomberg.
EU leaders agree to renew Russia sanctions for a full year for the first time as Bulgaria’s pro-Russian leader vows to veto the next batch
Rumen Radev wants the Russian oil company that runs his country's only refinery struck from the list, and he objects to sanctions on a Russian Orthodox bishop.
Canada hits Russia with new sanctions at G7, a day after Lavra strike
Carney condemns the monastery attack and targets Russia's shadow fleet and energy revenues
Zelenskyy at G7: Trump “positive” on missile licenses, but Europe needs a cheaper option
Washington's interceptor lines are stretched, and Zelenskyy wants Europe building its own.
Kallas calls the Lavra attack a war crime and announces new EU sanctions
The Foreign Affairs Council listed 34 individuals and 47 entities, including Lukoil-Western Siberia, two Chinese drone-component suppliers, the Kremlin's Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, and 15 people tied to Alexei Navalny's persecution and death.
UK forces board the Russian shadow-fleet’s oil tanker in the English Channel for the first time
Royal Marines and crime-agency officers spent six hours seizing the Smyrtos, which now sits anchored off England's southern coast, the UK government said.
Russia’s oil production falls for sixth straight month as Ukrainian drone strikes hit storage and transport
Companies redirected crude to restored Baltic and Black Sea ports, lifting exports from 3.17 to 3.64 million barrels a day, while the extraction tax base underneath kept contracting.
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget hole
The combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue.
WSJ: Putin’s sanctioned inner circle keeps buying Western business jets through a web of middlemen
A WSJ investigation traces Bombardier and Gulfstream business jets from European dealers through Dubai and Bermuda into Kremlin hands.
France’s navy boards a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet’s oil tanker in the Atlantic
The Tagor was hauling crude from a Russian Arctic port toward West Africa when commandos stopped it on the high seas, with British help.
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it
Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.