The fifth package includes a ban on:
imports from Russia of coal and other solid fossil fuels;
all Russian vessels from accessing EU ports;
Russian and Belarusian road transport operators from entering the EU;
imports of other goods such as wood, cement, seafood and liquor;
exports to Russia of jet fuel and other goods;
deposits to crypto-wallets.
Japan has designated 25 additional Generals from the Russian Federation and 81 entities as Russian Federation Specially Designated Entities. A licence will be required for any payments to, or capital transactions with, the designated Generals—including deposit, trust and loan contracts—and all exports to the 81 designated entities will be prohibited.
Japan has designated 18 Generals from the Russian Federation; four Russian banks—VTB Bank, Sovcombank, Novikombank and Otkritie; seven Generals and two entities from the Republic of Belarus; and 30 Generals from the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The government will freeze the assets of the designated persons/entities. A license will be required for any payments to, or capital transactions with, the designated persons/entities, including deposit contracts, trust contracts and loan contracts.
Directive 4 bars US persons from any transaction with Russia’s Central Bank, National Wealth Fund or Ministry of Finance; three additional entities and one General are placed on the SDN List
Restrictions on Russian access to EU capital markets and technology, particularly in the oil, military, and dual-use sectors.
Further measures include: a ban on transactions with the Russian Central Bank;
a ban on the overflight of EU airspace and on access to EU airports by Russian carriers.
Japan will suspend the issuance of visas for designated Generals related to Russia and freeze the assets held by designated Generals and entities related to Russia in Japan.
Japan will freeze the assets of three Russian banks — VEB.RF, Promsvyazbank, and Bank Rossiya — within Japan.
Japan will impose sanctions on exports to Russian military-related entities, on exports of controlled items listed on the internationally agreed list, and on other dual-use goods such as semiconductors.
Between 24/2 and 23/3, members of the State Duma, members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, officials of the Government of Russia, executives in the energy sector, defense entities, current and former senior officials and associates of the regime, and several entities are added to list subject to asset freeze and dealings prohibition.
Comprehensive set of sanctions blocking key Russian industries from raising finance on UK’s Finance markets, freezing of assets of several major Russian Finance institutions, including VTB Bank and key sectors like energy and defense. Sanctions also target the transport sector, dual-use goods, export control and export financing, visa policy, as well as additional Generals, following new listing criteria.
The EU Council agreed on a package of measures to respond to the decision by the Russian Federation to proceed with the recognition of the non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in Ukraine as independent entities, and the ensuing decision to send Russian troops into these areas. The agreed package includes: targeted sanctions against the 351 members of the Russian State Duma and an additional 27 Generals;
restrictions on economic relations with the non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts;
restrictions on Russia’s access to the EU’s capital and Finance markets and services.
The measures prohibit US Finance institutions from buying or selling Russian sovereign bonds issued after March 1 2022 in secondary markets and confirm existing primary-market and lending bans; designate VEB Bank, Promsvyazbank, their subsidiaries, several vessels and assorted Russian elites and relatives as Specially Designated Nationals, freezing their US-linked assets and transactions; place the Central Bank of Russia, the National Wealth Fund and the Ministry of Finance on the Non-SDN Menu-Based Sanctions List, exposing them to menu-based penalties; and identify the Russian Finance-services sector as sanctionable.