The agreed version was trimmed by one individual and one entity from the original draft prepared by the EU's top diplomat, which had listed 744 people and 827 legal entities. The Solikamsk Magnesium Plant and its director, Ruslan Dimukhamedov, were removed from the list, according to the Sistema project, a joint outlet of Radio Liberty and Current Time.
According to Radio Liberty correspondent Rikard Jozwiak, the restrictions cover 743 individuals and 826 companies in the military industry. AFP, citing diplomats, reported that the sanctions will be formally adopted on October 12 at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
An analysis by Sistema found that all the organizations on the new list appear in a closed register of defense enterprises compiled by the Russian government, which the Dossier research center published in 2025. Only a small portion of the Industry and Trade Ministry's registry, which contains more than six thousand organizations, made it onto the EU list.
A note in the document may indicate the selection principle: each of the sanctioned organizations is entitled to state subsidies to compensate employees' housing costs. An Industry and Trade Ministry letter dated April 24, 2026 establishes that such benefits apply not to the entire defense-industry registry but only to enterprises on the list of organizations entitled to set special working conditions. That list is not publicly available.
Among the organizations on the list are large industrial enterprises, including the Zvezdochka ship repair yard and the Admiralty Shipyards, drone and missile manufacturers such as KT — Unmanned Systems, and light industry enterprises: the Kirov Artificial Leather Combine and the Kurgan Sewing Factory. Roscosmos structures also fell under the new sanctions, including the United Rocket and Space Corporation.
As Crimea.Realities reported, citing Radio Svoboda, a separate large bloc in the draft list consisted of enterprises of the Russian submarine fleet. It included, in particular, Sevmash head Mikhail Budnichenko, Igor Vilnit, general director of the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering, and Vladimir Dorofeyev, head of Malakhit. The draft also featured the heads of the United Rocket and Space Corporation and the Russian Corporation of Rocket and Space Instrumentation, the Kazan Engine-Building Production Association, the Motovilikha Plants, and KamAZ structures.
In addition, EU ambassadors agreed on sanctions against 77 people elected to the State Duma from Ukraine's occupied territories. According to AFP, these include 74 who received parliamentary mandates and three members of an election commission. A separate decision extended sanctions over the proliferation and use of chemical weapons — under that regime, restrictions apply to 31 individuals and six organizations.
The new list is not the next, 22nd sanctions package and operates in addition to already adopted restrictions. The EU adopted its 21st package in July 2026 — under it, among other things, member states agreed to extend the current level of the price cap on Russian oil for 12 months. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced the introduction of the new list in late August.
After the formal procedure in the EU Council and publication of the acts in the Official Journal, the new personal sanctions provide for the freezing of assets in the EU and a ban on providing funds or economic resources to the sanctioned individuals and companies. For individuals, a ban on entering the European Union or transiting through its territory also applies.