{"id":467718,"date":"2026-10-12T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/12\/russia-dallue-sanzioni-per-quasi-1-600-tra-imprese-e-persone-kallas-colpito-il-cuore-dellindustria-militare\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:01:00","slug":"russia-eu-sanctions-target-nearly-1600-companies-and-individuals-kallas-the-heart-of-the-military-industrial-complex-has-been-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/russia-eu-sanctions-target-nearly-1600-companies-and-individuals-kallas-the-heart-of-the-military-industrial-complex-has-been-struck\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: EU sanctions target nearly 1,600 companies and individuals. Kallas: \u201cThe heart of the military-industrial complex has been struck\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 It is “the most extensive sanctions package since 2022<\/strong>” in terms of the number of individuals and companies affected, and in terms of measures targeting a sector \u2013 that of mid-tier suppliers to the Russian defence industry, which generates an annual turnover of at least \u20ac20 billion. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, presented the main political outcome achieved at the conclusion of the meeting of foreign ministers in this way. A total of 1,569 individuals and entities<\/strong> belonging to the Russian military-industrial complex have been added to the 12-star blacklist, in a move intended to continue putting pressure on Moscow and signalling a distancing from Washington and its president<\/a>, fresh from agreements with the Kremlin.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cNow is not the time to ease the pressure on Moscow, but rather to increase it,<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201d emphasised the High Representative as she announced the new restrictive measures. The decision<\/a> adopted in Luxembourg triggers an entry ban into the EU and an asset freeze for 826 Russian companies and 743 individuals holding the position of chief executive officer (CEO) of those companies. Of all these entities, Kallas emphasises, \u201cmore than half are involved in the production chain of the ballistic missiles that Russia uses<\/strong> every day to kill Ukrainian civilians.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The companies included on the sanctions list, she explains, supply “key components” for some of Russia\u2019s most advanced weapons systems, including missiles, aircraft, and remotely piloted aircraft \u2013 in other words, drones. These key components include electronics (including semiconductors, microcircuits, and computers),<\/span><\/span> communications equipment (radar, antennas, and transceivers),<\/span><\/span> aeronautical, satellite, and missile systems, as well as<\/span><\/span> explosives, munitions, and optical and navigation systems.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/27\/eu-and-us-at-odds-over-sanctions-against-russia\/ This strikes at \u201cthe heart of the Russian military industry,\u201d the High Representative added at the conclusion of the meeting, which was deemed a success: \u201cIt was a very productive meeting.<\/strong>\u201d From a political point of view, she emphasised, \u201ctoday we have shown unity.\u201d Following her messages to the United States and its president, Donald Trump, Kallas then sent a message to Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin: \u201cPressure and no concessions<\/strong> are the only way to bring the conflict to an end\u201d with Ukraine.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

In this regard, the foreign ministers have agreed to work towards isolating Russia in the sporting and cultural spheres as well, so as not to provide the Russian narrative with any useful channels through which to spread the message of the Russian Federation and its government. \u201cWe must not send any signals of leniency, because we see no intention on their part to stop,\u201d insists Kallas, who adds: \u201cThe issue of frozen Russian assets is back on the table.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

The issue of assets linked to Russian oligarchs close to the Kremlin and held in Europe has been raised in order to find a way to make Russia pay for the war damage in Ukraine and to help Kyiv meet its immediate financial needs. On this issue \u2013 which is far from straightforward to put into practice \u2013 the EU has already become bogged down, but it appears that discussions are once again being framed in terms of impending restrictions on the common budget.<\/p>\n

Kallas does not go into detail; she says nothing more than what she has already announced regarding the issue of frozen Russian assets, which nevertheless continue to serve as a useful tool in fulfilling the commitments made to continue to provide Ukraine with comprehensive support \u2013 that is to say, political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military, and diplomatic.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU\u2019s High Representative, while expressing her satisfaction, has criticised the US: \u201cA very productive meeting; now is not the time to ease sanctions on Moscow.\u201d The issue of frozen Russian assets has resurfaced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":467696,"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":[33389,33830,25804,25803,33394],"class_list":["post-467718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-industria-militare","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-sanctionsin","tag-russia-in-2","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467718","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467719,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467718\/revisions\/467719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}