On 12 May 2014, the EU announced that it was further expanding the sanctions imposed in connection with the situation in Ukraine in light of a perceived continuation of efforts to destabilise eastern and southern Ukraine. Also at this time for the first time the EU has imposed sanctions on entities in connection with the […]

On 11 April 2014, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it had listed as SDNs seven Crimean-based individuals and also one entity, Chernomorneftegaz, for contributing to the situation in Ukraine. The names of the SDNs are listed here. More recently, President Obama indicated at a press conference on […]