Overview
- The Council renewed the measures until September 15 after a deadlock driven by Hungarian and Slovak vetoes, finalizing the deal by written procedure.
- Officials removed two living individuals and five deceased people from the list, while the rest of the framework remains in force.
- An EU diplomat identified Dutch national Niels Troost as one of the two living individuals delisted.
- Slovakia’s push to delist tycoons Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman did not succeed, according to diplomats.
- Roughly 2,600 people and entities remain subject to travel bans and asset freezes, with Hungary still blocking a new sanctions package and a €90 billion Ukraine loan.