Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday signed decrees putting into force two new sanctions lists against Russia's military-industrial complex, the President's Office announced on October 24. Together the lists name 83 individuals and 79 companies involved, Kyiv says, in producing ballistic missiles, military aircraft, armoured vehicles and drones.
Source: The Kyiv Independent
The first list targets 51 Russian citizens and 44 businesses that produce and supply raw materials, equipment and tools for long-range weapons such as the Iskander, Kalibr, Kh-101 and Kinzhal missiles. Named entities include the G. S. Petrov Institute of Plastics, the Kometa special-purpose space systems corporation, chemical supplier VitaReactive, optics maker Promenergo and the D. I. Mendeleev metrology institute, according to the President's Office statement reported by Ukrainian media.
Source: Kyiv Post via Mastodon
The second list covers 32 citizens and 35 companies in the supply chains for high-precision industrial equipment, electronics and components, including firms linked to the RUSAL aluminium group. The President's Office said RUSAL trading and plant units imported aluminium oxide worth nearly 150 million rubles into Russia between April 2024 and March 2025 — yaani about 1.8 million US dollars, roughly ₹16 crore — and that the raw material was used in military aviation, missile weapons, armoured vehicles and drones.
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"We are systematically identifying and imposing sanctions on enterprises involved in producing Russian ballistic missiles and other weapons. We are working to extend these sanctions to other jurisdictions," Ukraine's sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said. "Together, these measures should significantly weaken the Russian military-industrial complex's ability to produce weapons."
The lists also reach beyond Russia: Ukrainian reporting says they include the Chinese company Xiefeng (HK) Int'l Electronics Limited, which is already under European Union and United Kingdom sanctions over weapons production. Kyiv framed the package as an attempt to squeeze the industrial inputs — composites, machine tools, electronics and measuring equipment — behind Russia's long-range strike programme, rather than only the factories that assemble finished weapons.
The announcement comes as Russia steps up missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) told Ukrainian media earlier this week that Russia produces some 10,000 drones per month and is stockpiling 700 ballistic missiles — figures Kyiv cites as the reason for widening the sanctions net, and which have not been independently verified.