{"id":462438,"date":"2026-08-17T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/17\/guerra-in-ucraina-kallas-in-autunno-nuove-sanzioni-contro-la-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:03:50","slug":"war-in-ukraine-kallas-announces-new-sanctions-against-russia-in-the-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/17\/war-in-ukraine-kallas-announces-new-sanctions-against-russia-in-the-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Ukraine: Kallas announces “new sanctions against Russia in the autumn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The European Union is trying not to stand idly by in the face of Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine, which shows no sign of abating, and is seeking to stay one step ahead. \u201cThis autumn, I will present the most ambitious list of sanctions since the start of the war,\u201d said <\/a>the Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative for the EU\u2019s Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, in an interview published today (17 August) by the German newspaper Die Welt. The High Representative stressed that \u201conce adopted, these measures would lead to an immediate increase of one-third in the total number of sanctioned Russian entities,\u201d a move that follows the adoption of the 21st package of sanctions against the Russian Federation<\/a> at the end of July. According to Kallas, since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, \u201cEU sanctions have already imposed extremely high costs on Russia, depriving its war machine of over one thousand billion euros.<\/strong>\u201d According to some European Commission estimates, the sanctions have so far affected 3,000 individuals<\/a> and entities. <\/p>\n

The announcement comes in response to the intensification of targeted attacks against Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure in recent weeks, in connection with which Kallas has accused Moscow of waging \u201csystematic terror.\u201d<\/strong> The High Representative maintains that, as Russian forces are failing to gain the upper hand on the battlefield, they are increasingly targeting Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure to render cities uninhabitable. According to reports from the governor of the Odesa oblast, Oleh Kiper<\/strong>, four people were injured<\/a> in a Russian attack on port infrastructure in the Ukrainian region. <\/p>\n

On the other side, the Russian Federation\u2019s air defences and population centres are also facing a wave of Ukrainian air raids. Yesterday, an attack carried out by hundreds of short- and medium-range drones launched by the Kyiv armed forces resulted in the deaths of twelve people. This incident was described by the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobiov<\/strong>, as \u201cone of the most massive in recent history.\u201d The intensification of the war is also spreading to other neighbouring states: yesterday, a drone that had entered Romanian airspace was shot down near the borders with Ukraine and Moldova. \u201cInvestigations into the details of the incident are ongoing, but the drone appears to be Russian,” NATO spokesperson Martin O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n

Since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the EU has imposed “massive and unprecedented” sanctions against Russia<\/a>. These measures are in addition to the sanctions already in place against Russia since 2014, following the annexation of Crimea and the failure to implement the Minsk Agreements<\/a><\/strong>. They include economic sanctions, targeted sanctions, diplomatic measures and visa restrictions, aiming to bring an end to the war of aggression, maximising pressure on Moscow and reducing its ability to continue the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, the High Representative said that, since the invasion began in 2022, EU sanctions have deprived Moscow\u2019s war machine of \u201cover one thousand billion euros\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":462392,"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":[25707],"tags":[33644,34179,34776,35324,35268,35087,33576,31615,33830,25804,35325,25803,26403,31508,27041],"class_list":["post-462438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-aiuti-allucraina","tag-aiuti-ue-allucraina","tag-alta-rappresentante-degli-affari-esteri-ue","tag-alta-rappresentante-per-gli-affari-esteri","tag-alta-rappresentante-per-la-politica-estera-e-la-sicurezza","tag-attacco-allucraina","tag-cremlino","tag-extension-sanctions-russia-en","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-sanctionsin","tag-proroga-sanzioni-ue-russia","tag-russia-in-2","tag-war-russia-in-ukraine-en","tag-sanctions-at-russia-en","tag-armi-ucraine-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462438","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\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462439,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462438\/revisions\/462439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}