The sanctions will target Russia's oil industry, defence, dual-use goods and sensitive technologies, diplomats said.
The sanctions are to be reviewed after three months.
The new measures go beyond the asset freezes and visa bans used until now, instead imposing restrictions to increase the cost to Russia of its continued intervention and support of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of firing across the border from eastern Ukraine into Russian territory using assault rifles and grenade launchers.
In a statement the Russian foreign ministry said: "We officially demand Kiev stop firing at the sovereign territory of the Russian Federation".
The Ukrainian government has denied firing into Russian territory.
Meanwhile, 17 people, including three children, were killed in the past 24 hours by shelling in Ukraine's rebel-held stronghold of Gorlivka, local Ukrainian officials said.
They said 43 people were also wounded in the city, which was observing three days of mourning for 13 civilians, including two children, killed on Sunday by Grad rockets.
Several homes were hit by artillery fire in the town located 45km north of Donetsk, the officials said.
The top storey of a school was destroyed and several units in a local hospital were also damaged, they said.
The United Nations has criticised the use of heavy weapons by both pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces in inhabited areas, and in a report released yesterday said more than 1,100 had been killed by fighting since mid-April................http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0729/633683-ukraine-mh17/29/7/14
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EU Names 8 Russians and 3 Firms Added to Sanctions List....
ReplyDeleteBRUSSELS — The European Commission has published the names of eight Russians, including some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's associates, and three companies that will have their assets frozen as part of sanctions against Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine.
The people on the list include billionaire businessman Arkady Rotenberg who is Putin's long-time judo partner, and already on a U.S. sanctions list since March.
Yury Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov — the two largest shareholders in Bank Rossiya, a St. Petersburg company that expanded rapidly after Putin moved to Moscow and became president in 2000 — were also blacklisted.
The companies named include Russian National Commercial Bank, which was the first Russian bank into Crimea after the region's annexation by Russia earlier this year.
The other two firms are anti-aircraft weapons maker Almaz-Antey and Dobrolyot airline, which operates flights between Moscow and Simferopol in the Crimea............................http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/504344.html
31/7/14