The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, signed two decrees (here are first and second) regarding sanctions against Russian oligarchs and Russian companies. Sanctions were imposed for a period of 10 years.
The list includes 2,507 people, including:
- Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson is a major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek;
- Evgeniy Prigozhin is the owner of Wagner;
- Roman Arkadievich Abramovich is a billionaire, businessman and politician;
- Kerimov Suleyman Abusaidovich is an oligarch, a billionaire who has close ties to Putin;
- Arkadiy Romanovich Rotenberg is an entrepreneur, billionaire, close associate of Putin;
- Boris Romanovich Rotenberg is an entrepreneur, vice-president of the Judo Federation of Russia;
- Igor Arkadyevich Rotenberg is one of the richest businessmen in Russia;
- Rotenberg Boris Borisovich — football player, son of Boris Romanovich Rotenberg;
- Karina Yurievna Rotenberg is the wife of Boris Romanovich Rotenberg;
- Ekaterina Mikhailovna Fridman is the daughter of Mikhail Fridman, the founder and owner of Alfa Group;
- Larisa Mikhailovna Fridman is the daughter of Mikhail Fridman, the founder and owner of Alfa Group;
- Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich is the vice president of the Lukoil company;
- Kharitonin Viktor Vladimirovich is a billionaire close to the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Tatyana Golikova and her husband Viktor Khristenko;
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Buinov is a co-founder of the Irkutsk Oil Company, the largest private oil company in Russia;
- Baturina Elena Nikolaevna is a billionaire, wife of the late mayor of Moscow Yuriy Luzhkov;
- Elena Yurievna Luzhkova is her daughter;
- Olga Skabeeva and Vladimir Solovyov are propagandists;
- Yevgeniy Valentinovich Kasperskiy — controls Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company.
Among the companies and enterprises under sanctions were:
- Alfa Bank;
- Russian Direct Investment Fund;
- Alrosa — a company engaged in diamond mining;
- joint-stock company Ramensky instrument-making plant;
- Gazprom Nafta Shelf.
So-called cultural figures were also sanctioned, including presenter Regina Todorenko, singers Ani Lorak, Taisia Povaliy, Anna Sedokova, singers Oleg Gazmanov, Timati, Nikolai Baskov, Stas Mikhailov, Nadezhda Babkina, Yulia Chicherina, actors Ivan Okhlobystin, Mikhail Boyarskyi, Sergei Bezrukov, Mikhail Porechenkov and others.
- These sanctions were announced on October 19 by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov. According to him, the sanctions against one more person were postponed for a certain period of time: "This is taking into account national security issues, according to a letter from one of our departments."