The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has agreed and submitted to the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) its new proposals as for sanctions against individuals and legal entities of the Russian Federation.
According to the ministry’s press service, on Dec. 18 the Cabinet considered recommendations of Ukraine’s Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons and decided to submit the proposals to the NSDC.
Under a respective Cabinet resolution, restrictive measures (sanctions) could be applied to a number of individuals and legal entities that create real or potential threats to the national interests of Ukraine, violate the interests of the public and the state, lead to property losses, create obstacles for citizens of Ukraine to fully enjoy their rights and freedoms.
In particular, it is proposed that the sanctions should be imposed on 23 individuals who were involved in conducting illegal archaeological activity at cultural heritage sites or who participated in activities aimed at legitimizing the illegal occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
Subject to the sanctions could be Russian enterprises and enterprises from European countries that support operations of Titan Investments LLC in Armiansk in Crimea: 14 legal entities involved in the supply of materials, equipment and services to the plants of the Russian Federation’s military and industrial complex in the temporarily occupied territories. Certain legal entities involved in providing transport services through the ports of Temryuk, Kavkaz and the Kerch ferry are also facing the sanctions.
The Ukrainian government also proposes sanctioning individuals who are heads or founders of the legal entities involved in the illegal construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait.
The ministry says that the introduction of the sanctions against the said legal entities and individuals will outlaw economic relations with Ukraine, will limit or terminate economic relations with the EU countries and the United States, aiming at facilitating the return of the occupied territories under Ukraine’s jurisdiction.
