The approval of the package was achieved after overcoming the blockade by Hungary and Slovakia, who withdrew their vetoes after the Druzhba pipeline was repaired.

The package includes the listing of 120 additional individuals and entities, representing the largest round of individual sanctions in two years.

1. Trade Measures: Exports and Imports

Documents: OJ L 2026/508, OJ L 2026/506.

This package introduces additional trade restrictions valued at close to one billion euros in aggregate, with the aim of further cutting off the supply of goods that sustain the Russian military-industrial complex.

New products banned for export to Russia

• Technology and materials for the military effort (Annex VII):
  • Energetic and explosive materials: Amatol, nitroglycol and picryl chloride.
  • High performance lubricants
  • Laboratory equipment: Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware (including graduates).
  • Specific Chemicals: Toluene diisocyanate in any isomeric form.
• Goods for the improvement of industrial capacity (Annex XXIII):
  • Machinery and transport: Industrial tractors with an engine power exceeding 130 kW (except power tillers or common agricultural tractors).
  • Rubber and articles thereof: natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, vulcanized rubber thread and cord, rubber clothing and accessories (except certain gloves) and hard rubber (ebonite).
  • Articles of metal and tools: screws, bolts, nuts, rivets, cotters and cotter pins, of iron or steel; cast iron or steel castings; tooling inserts, rods and tips of cermets; wires and electrodes for soldering, brazing or welding of metal. CN codes: 7304, 7305, 7306, 7318, 7325, 8207 13 00, 8207 19 10, 8209, 8311.
  • Chemical and industrial products: Organo-inorganic compounds, heterocyclic compounds with oxygen heteroatoms and natural or artificial abrasives on various supports.

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Anti-Circumvention Tool (Kyrgyzstan Case)

For the first time, the sale to the Kyrgyz Republic of specific products is prohibited due to the extreme risk of systematic re-export to Russia for the manufacture of missiles and drones:

• Machining centers for metal working. NC code 8457 10.
• Telecommunication apparatus for the reception, conversion and transmission of voice, images or data (routers, modems and switching equipment). CN Code: 8517 62.

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New import bans from Russia

The EU restricts the entry of goods that generate strategic income for the Kremlin: metals and minerals, raw materials and chemicals, vulcanized rubber goods and tanned or dressed furskins.

2. Individual Sanctions and Additional Listings

Documents: OJ L 2026/504, OJ L 2026/509.

This section represents the largest round of individual listings in two years, targeting actors who support the Russian war effort or commit reprehensible acts in occupied territory.

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3. Energy Sector and “Shadow Fleet”.

Documents: OJ L 2026/508, OJ L 2026/506.

The package introduces measures to reduce hydrocarbon revenues, especially attacking the ecosystem that circumvents price caps.

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4. Financial Services and Cryptoassets

Documents: OJ L 2026/508, OJ L 2026/506.

It seeks to intensify Russia’s financial isolation and close evasion avenues through digital assets and alternative messaging systems.

• Ban on transactions with 20 additional Russian banks,
• Sanctions on financial institutions in third countries (Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Azerbaijan and Armenia)
• Veto on the use of the RUBx cryptocurrency (ruble-backed stablecoin).

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5. Anti-Circumvention and Military Sector

Documents: OJ L 2026/508, OJ L 2026/506.

For the first time, legal tools are activated to curb the flow of critical technology to the Russian war machine through third states.

• Designation of 16 third-country suppliers(China, UAE, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) for supplying dual-use technology.
• Tighter export restrictions for 60 additional entities linked to technological upgrading of the Russian defense sector.

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6. Legal Protection of EU Operators

Documents: OJ L 2026/511, OJ L 2026/508, OJ L 2026/506.

Defense mechanisms are established to protect European citizens and companies from legal and economic retaliation by the Kremlin.

• Power for EU courts to impose fines on Russian entities that initiate abusive litigation in Russian courts against European companies.
• Right to claim damages before EU courts for unlawful expropriation of assets or enforcement of abusive Russian judgments in third countries.
• Prohibition of transactions against Russian competitors benefiting from forced control (temporary management) of subsidiaries of EU companies in Russia.
• Protection of intellectual property rights against theft or non-consensual use by Russian entities.

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7. Belarus

Documents: OJ L 2026/503, OJ L 2026/505, OJ L 2026/512, OJ L 2026/513.

The package includes measures to sanction Belarus’ role as a facilitator of Russian aggression by applying mirror restrictions.