EU targets Chinese firms, N. Korea in new Ukraine war sanctions
The HinduThe EU on Wednesday agreed to ban exports to three mainland Chinese firms and blacklist North Korea's defence minister in new sanctions for the second anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, officials said. The fresh round of measures — the 13th since Russian President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion — overall targets some two hundred officials and entities mainly from Russia involved in the conflict. Multiple diplomats said the new sanctions included adding three mainland Chinese firms to a list of companies that EU businesses were banned from dealing with. As part of the new package, diplomats said the EU also imposed an asset freeze and visa ban on North Korea's defence minister Kang Sun Nam for the supply of ballistic missiles to Moscow.