Overview
- The Council formally prolonged individual measures to 15 September 2026 after envoys failed to clinch a deal in talks and moved to a written procedure.
- Roughly 2,600 individuals and entities remain under travel bans, asset freezes and prohibitions on providing funds or economic resources.
- Two living individuals were delisted and five deceased were removed; an EU diplomat told Reuters one of the living was Dutch national Niels Troost.
- Diplomats said Hungary and Slovakia had pressed to drop some oligarchs, yet Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman were not among those removed.
- Political friction continues as Hungary resists a new 20th sanctions package and has tied a €90 billion Ukraine loan to its demands, with disputes also linked to Druzhba pipeline oil flows.