Brussels \u2013 The Council of the European Union decided today (17 July) to impose restrictive measures on one individual and five entities \u201cin view of Russia\u2019s continued and escalating aggression against Ukraine \u2014 including its recent deadly strikes on Kyiv during the nights of 1 and 5 July 2026, and its brutal military campaign deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.\u201d According to the Council, these entities form part of the Russian military-industrial complex, specifically by being involved in drone manufacturing.<\/p>\n
All five listed entities belong to the ABS Electro group of companies, which develops and manufactures electronic and radio-electronic components needed for drone warfare. \u201cNotably, these entities contribute to the development of systems which enhance the capacity of Russian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles \u2013 such as Shahed and Geran type drones \u2013 by increasing their resistance against electronic warfare,\u201d the Council added. Furthermore, \u201c several companies produce automated control systems for the Russian energy sector, which provides a substantial source of revenue to the Russian government.\u201d The listed individual is Irina Kharisova, the Chairman of the Board of ABS Electro group of companies, and the Director of several companies that are part of this group.<\/p>\n
“Today\u2019s listings were adopted within the restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Those listed under this sanctions regime are subject to an asset freeze,<\/strong> and the provision of funds or economic resources, directly or indirectly, to them or for their benefit is prohibited. Additionally, a travel ban to the EU applies to the natural persons listed,” the Council noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brussels \u2013 The Council of the European Union decided today (17 July) to impose restrictive measures on one individual and five entities \u201cin view of Russia\u2019s continued and escalating aggression against Ukraine \u2014 including its recent deadly strikes on Kyiv during the nights of 1 and 5 July 2026, and its brutal military campaign deliberately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,25707],"tags":[34917,25744,25804,25803,33394],"class_list":["post-460325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-brief","category-world-politics","tag-complesso-militare","tag-industry-en","tag-sanctionsin","tag-russia-in-2","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460326,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460325\/revisions\/460326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}