Zelenskyy signed "special" sanctions against Russian officials, collaborators, and propagandists

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed new decisions on Ukraine’s sanctions, which he called "special."

Zelenskyy announced this on Telegram.

According to him, the restrictions target representatives of Russian government structures, "wallets" of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, collaborators, and individuals involved in looting in temporarily occupied territories.

The President noted that Russia is trying to prolong the war while simultaneously legitimizing the occupation of Ukrainian territories, including through propaganda and fake "sanction" decisions against Ukrainian officials.

"Such behavior by Russia deserves significantly greater global pressure and an expansion of the scope of this pressure - both against all sources and schemes of funding the Russian war machine, and against every individual who spreads propaganda and complicates the adoption of decisions aimed at achieving true peace," the President emphasized.

Ukraine, according to him, is already preparing proposals for new sanctions to be presented to international partners.

Separately, Zelenskyy reported that Russian publishing houses engaged in justifying aggression and spreading Russian propaganda worldwide have also been sanctioned.

"Everything in Russia that is oriented toward war must be blocked," the President concluded.

The first decree imposes sanctions on eight individuals involved in crimes against Ukraine and its citizens.

These are individuals who have appropriated property in the agricultural sector, grain crops, cultural heritage objects, conducted information operations against our state, and implemented Russian educational standards with anti-Ukrainian content in temporarily occupied territories.

The restrictions target Russian government officials, an FSB agent involved in information sabotage, a representative of the information department of the Russian General Staff, as well as financier Kirill Dmitriev - a close associate of the Russian leadership who attracts Russian investments into strategic sectors of other countries’ economies. The sanctions list also includes those who publicly justify Russian aggression.

Also in the new sanctions lists:

• Alexandr Bugaev - First Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation
• Alexandr Zorin - General, representative of Russia in the negotiation group
• Aleksey Komkov - Head of the 5th Service of the FSB
• Oksana Lut - Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
• Andrey Omelchuk - Deputy Minister of Science
• Oleksandr Tupytskyi - Former Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

Additionally, Russian publishing houses "Viche," "Peter," "Book World," "Tsentrpoligraf," and "Yauza" have been sanctioned.

The President of Ukraine emphasized that Kyiv will submit its proposals for new sanctions to international partners.

The second decree imposes restrictive measures against five Russian publishing houses engaged in war propaganda, spreading Kremlin narratives worldwide, and fostering anti-Ukrainian sentiments in the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson regions.