The Council of the EU on the last working day of the week is finally approved new sanctions List in Ukraine, which included additional fifteen names and 18 legal entities, of which the European Union considers responsible for undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine, according to a communique of the Council of the EU. " The Council today adopted the enhanced punishment EU position on Ukraine. The Council added another fifteen men and 18 entities responsible for the actions against the Ukrainian territorial integrity, to the List of those for which entered freeze the assets and ban on issuing visas, " reads the document, which cites RIA " Novosti ". The list will be placed later than on the last working day of the week. On Thursday the Committee of permanent Plenipotentiaries of the countries of the EU extended sanctions List to include the names of fifteen Residents of Russia and Ukraine, as Well as 18 organizations. According to media reports, the new sanctions List of the European Union made the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the foreign intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, as Well as security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. Before that, it was declared that the EU may take action to ban for Europeans to purchase the debentures and the shares of all Russian credit organizations with state participation has more than 50%. on 18 July, the European Union extended the legal basis for the use of restrictive measures of the EU in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The European Council of 17 July adopted a final report on Ukraine, in which, for example, it is reported that the leaders of EU member States asked the European Commission to revise and stop for some time a number of programmes of cooperation with Russia, in addition to cross-border cooperation and programmes of civil society. Also on July 17, the U.S. government has introduced fresh punishment relative to Russian organizations, and among them, Gazprombank and Vnesheconombank, energy organizations Rosneft and NOVATEK, and organizations of the Russian military-industrial complex, including " Almaz-Antey " concern " Kalashnikov ". Punishment USA will affect NGOs " Izhmash ", NGO " Bazalt ", Uralvagonzavod and instrument design Bureau.
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