President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has enacted the decision of the National Security and Defence Council to impose 10-year sanctions on 73 business entities – airports and air cargo companies – and 74 individuals. The relevant decrees have been published on the website of the President’s Office, Komersant ukrainskyi
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By Decree No. 601/2024, the President approved sanctions for 10 years against 165 people, including the head of the Russian occupation administration in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo. The majority of those sanctioned are Russian citizens, but there are also Ukrainians and people with dual Ukrainian-Russian citizenship.
The decree also imposes sanctions on 21 legal entities. The sanctions were imposed on 1C, a software development and support company, for three years; on a seller of Western cars (including Mercedes-Benz) in Russia for five years; and on companies legally located in Russia and Ukraine (Kyiv, temporarily occupied Crimea, Bila Tserkva, Kherson) for 10 years.
Decree No. 602/2024 applies to 74 individuals and 73 legal entities, and the sanctions are imposed for 10 years.
The sanctions came into effect upon Zelenskyy’s signature and will remain in place for ten years. The President entrusted the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Lytvynenko with control over implementation.
According to the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, the restrictions are imposed on collaborators and those who assisted the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied territories.
“Sanctions are imposed against individuals and legal entities, collaborators, occupiers and entities that assist them in the TOT (175 entities in total); companies involved in the maintenance of jointly based airfields of the Russian Ministry of Defence, the Russian Federal Security Service, the Russian National Guard, where military aircraft are stationed. In addition, companies transporting military equipment, ammunition, equipment and supplies to the frontline, as well as importing sanctioned goods, including weapons and components for the military-industrial complex from Iran and the DPRK, are subject to sanctions,” he wrote.
The sanctioned companies include the following:
- Novaport Holding LLC is a company that owns or manages controlling stakes in the Pulkovo cargo terminal and 21 regional airports in Russia. It is also subject to EU sanctions;
- North-South Freight Forwarding Company LLC – the company specialises in cargo transportation by air and sea and has carried out orders for the Russian military-industrial complex;
- domodedovo Airport;
- Koltsovo Airport JSC – manages Koltsovo International Airport, which serves sanctioned airlines and is owned by oligarch Viktor Vekselberg;
- AeroStan Airlines LLC is a resident company of the Kyrgyz Republic, an operator of charter air cargo transportation, whose aircraft are regularly used to transport foreign products to Russia bypassing sanctions restrictions, including for the Russian military-industrial complex.
Yermak noted that the list of individuals subject to the new sanctions was developed by an international working group headed by Yermak and Ambassador Michael McFaul, Director of the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).