The Council of the EU, where government ministers of all the 27 EU Member States meet, adopted the 17th package of economic and individual restrictive measures against Russia, targeting nearly 200 shadow fleet ships. New measures also address hybrid threats and human rights. 

This new package of sanctions cut off Russia’s access to key military technology and curb Russia’s energy revenues that fuel its war of aggression against Ukraine, by heavily targeting Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers, their operators, as well as a major Russian oil producer.

China is the largest provider of dual-use goods and sensitive items that sustain Russia’s military industrial base and are found on the battlefield. To be clear, these are goods with military applications. Without China's support for Russia, Russia would not be able to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine with the same force. 

As this support contributes to a direct threat to European security, the EU has no choice but to impose a cost on Chinese firms directly implicated in this support.

The EU urges Chinese authorities to prevent the circumvention of EU sanctions and to cease material support for the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

To learn more details, read the press release from the Council of the EU - Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: EU agrees 17th package of sanctions

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