The US and EU have imposed an array of sanctions on Russian individuals and businesses in response to the annexation of Crimea and the crisis in eastern Ukraine. The deaths of 298 people on board a Malaysia Airlines plane destroyed over eastern Ukraine on 17 July triggered tougher EU sanctions.
The US published lists of individuals and companies hit by travel bans and asset freezes on 19 March, 20 March, 28 April and 16 July. The EU’s lists were issued on 17 March, 23 March, 29 April, 12 May, 25 July, 30 July and 12 September.
