Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on Wednesday to enforce a previous decision by the National Security and Defense Council to expand sanctions against thirteen individuals and legal entities from Russia, Ukraine, and Great Britain, a document on the Ukrainian president's official website showed.
The head of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) Denis Pushilin, Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Shariy, and the editor-in-chief of Ukrainian news outlet Strana.ua Igor Guzhva were included in the list of individuals targeted by the additional sanctions. The measures adopted include the blocking of assets and internet resources belonging to sanctioned individuals and will be valid for ten years.
Previously, Ukraine's parliament passed a draft law in the first reading to deprive state awards "to traitors of Ukraine" for popularizing and promoting "the aggressor state and its authorities."
