The President of Ukraine enacted the NSDC's decision on three sanctions packages: “TOT Asset Thieves”, “Shadow Fleet Captains” and “Museum Workers”

On August 3, 2025, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed further sanctions against individuals and companies involved in large-scale theft of Ukrainian natural resources, circumvention of international restrictions on Russian oil and indoctrination of the Ukrainian population in the temporarily occupied territories.

Sanctions Package “TOT Asset Abductors”

The sanctions were imposed on 62 entities - 39 individuals and 23 legal entities - involved in:

• illegal export of grain from the TOT (Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk regions, Crimea),
• illegal mining (iron ore, gold, kaolin, granite),
• logistics of stolen property through Russian vessels and fictitious companies from Egypt, Oman, and Russia.

Among those sanctioned are the captains of the vessels FEDOR, ZAFAR, MATROS SHEVCHENKO, Adamz Grain (Egypt), Gulf & Eastern Food Trading (Oman), Terra Trade Company, Crane Marine Contractor, Idealprod, Kuban-Forward, which were directly involved in the export of Ukrainian grain.

Sanctions package “Captains of the shadow fleet”

The package includes 94 captains who transported Russian oil bypassing the price ceiling set by the international coalition.

82 of them are already working on ships under sanctions from the US, EU, UK, Canada, and Australia. They regularly transported Russian oil products to Turkey, China, and India, despite international restrictions.

Sanctions were also imposed against 5 Russian resident companies, including:

• Gazpromneft Shipping LLC,
• LLC SCF ECO, SCF TM, SCF Prirazlomnoe,
• LLC Argo Tanker Group - operators of tankers already under sanctions of their partners.

Sanctions package “Museum workers”

Includes 15 Russian citizens, heads of Russian museums, who:

• participated in the appropriation of Ukrainian museum funds,
• created and supported “children's centers” to indoctrinate Ukrainian children in the TOT,
• promoted the occupation on international museum platforms.

Among the defendants:

• Galina Alekseeva and Artem Silkin, who are running for senior positions in ICOM (International Council of Museums),
• Yulia Kupina, Dmitry Kozhanov, Mikhail Mindlin, Irina Zhukova, Alexander Ushakov and others.

Thanks to their activities, 39 Ukrainian museums from the TOT have already been listed in the state Russian catalog of cultural property, which indicates a targeted policy of cultural looting.

All three packages were developed in cooperation with international partners and submitted to the competent authorities of the EU, the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia. They have a clearly documented evidence base aimed at the inevitability of punishment for cooperation with the aggressor.