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Zelenskyy sanctions a number of individuals and businesses

Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 18:39
Zelenskyy sanctions a number of individuals and businesses
Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Stock photo: Getty Images

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has enacted a decision by Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council to impose sanctions on certain individuals and businesses.

Source: the relevant decrees, published on the President's Office website

Details: By Decree No. 761/2024, Zelenskyy enacted the decision of the National Security and Defence Council to sanction 15 individuals for a period of 10 years, including Mikhail Razvozhayev, a Russian native and the so-called governor of temporarily occupied Sevastopol, and the collaborator Vladimir Nemtsev.

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The same decree gives effect to the NSDC’s decision to impose 10-year sanctions on 39 companies.

By Decree No. 762/2024, the President put into effect the NSDC's decision to impose sanctions for 10 years on 63 companies, including Russian airlines and airports such as Sheremetyevo Handling; Domodedovo Airport Handling; Airport Service; Northern Capital Air Gate; Aeroflot Techs; and Sky Food Vnukovo.

Oil and gas companies were also sanctioned, including RussNeft, Tuimaada-Neft Oil Company, and Gazpromneft-Aero Novosibirsk.

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Both decrees came into force on the day of their publication, 12 November.

Background:

  • Last month, Zelenskyy signed two decrees enacting an NSDC decision On the Application of Personal Special Economic and Other Restrictive Measures (Sanctions).
  • The legal entities sanctioned by the NSDC included Russian and Chinese companies, notably the state-owned Rostec Corporation.
  • Pro-Russian Ukrainian lawyer Tetiana Montian was one of the individuals sanctioned.

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