Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min · 5 segments
In today's news, the EU approved its largest-ever sanctions package against Russia, targeting around 1,600 individuals and businesses, more than half linked to ballistic missile production. Meanwhile…
So firstly, the EU foreign minister meeting in Luxembourg on Monday approved the bloc's largest ever sanctions package against Moscow, targeting around sixteen hundred individuals and businesses linked to the Russian war effort, and another seventy-seven tied to elections in occupied Ukrainian territories.
The package comes as Russia steps up its autumn strikes against Ukraine's energy grid ahead of the fifth winter of the war.
So what? I mean, the focus on the missile supply chains will likely raise the cost and the pace, uh, slow the pace of the Russian ballistic missile production, but is highly unlikely to stop them altogether.
There's also the fact they have lots of drones.
Russia will almost certainly try to get around these new listings through just front companies and third-party intermediaries, as this is what they've done after every other sanctions package, which makes sanctions pretty difficult to enforce.
Yeah, you basically just start registering more country- companies in other countries and use them as cutouts, and that's how you get around it.
So firstly, the EU foreign minister meeting in Luxembourg on Monday approved the bloc's largest ever sanctions package against Moscow, targeting around sixteen hundred individuals and businesses linked to the Russian war effort, and another seventy-seven tied to elections in occupied Ukrainian territories.
The package comes as Russia steps up its autumn strikes against Ukraine's energy grid ahead of the fifth winter of the war.
So what? I mean, the focus on the missile supply chains will likely raise the cost and the pace, uh, slow the pace of the Russian ballistic missile production, but is highly unlikely to stop them altogether.
There's also the fact they have lots of drones.
Russia will almost certainly try to get around these new listings through just front companies and third-party intermediaries, as this is what they've done after every other sanctions package, which makes sanctions pretty difficult to enforce.
Yeah, you basically just start registering more country- companies in other countries and use them as cutouts, and that's how you get around it.
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