Ukraine sanctions on 24 Russian firms

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky approved a decree by Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions on a total of 24 Russian companies and the Russian Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Yury Chaika, according to TASS.

A document with details of the blacklisted companies was published by the presidential website. The document included construction companies Lenpromtransproyekt and Geozemstroy, as well as a Russian insurance company, Insurance Business Group.

The Russian news agency reported that the list also mentions Sevastopol's state-owned Culture Development Center, the National Culture Heritage Foundation for social and cultural projects, the Departmental Security Service of the Russian Transport Ministry and the Transstroy holding company.

The Kyiv government has a total of 24 companies that are responsible for illegal construction and use of the railway section of the transport route across the Kerch Strait, organizing rail service between Crimea and mainland Russia and damaging the national cultural heritage on the territory of Sevastopol are included in the document.