Ukraine has imposed new sanctions against russia

This was reported by the President’s press office on 30 October.

The sanctions list includes 10 companies involved in the development of the "Rassvet" system and the supply of the necessary technologies and components. These include "Bureau 1440", the project’s developer and systems integrator; "Labs 1440", which manufactures solar panels for spacecraft; and "FAB Rassvet", which develops and manufactures low-Earth orbit communications satellites and subscriber terminals.

Restrictions have also been imposed on the Belarusian company "AeroCosmic Instruments", which develops components for aerospace systems; the industrial equipment supplier "5S Group"; the manufacturer of high-precision parts "Aquamash"; suppliers of optical and electronic equipment "El-Optics" and "Elesar Group", as well as the company "Small Spacecraft".

russia relies on foreign technologies, equipment and components to implement the project, noted Vladislav Vlasyuk, adviser and presidential representative on sanctions policy. Ukraine therefore seeks to restrict these supply chains as early as the system’s development stage and calls on its partners to coordinate sanctions, he emphasised.

A separate sanctions package targets 39 seagoing vessels transporting russian oil, petroleum products and gas condensate. Of these, 17 fly the russian flag, three fly the flag of Barbados, three fly the flag of Liberia, three fly the flag of the Marshall Islands, three fly the flag of Panama, two fly the flag of Hong Kong and two fly the flag of Djibouti. A further eight vessels fly the flags of the Bahamas, Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Palau and Sierra Leone.

The vessels transport russian energy resources to ports in China, India, Egypt, Turkey and other countries. In particular, the tanker Vasily Dinkov carried out 15 shipments totalling around 726,000 tonnes of russian crude oil in the first half of 2026 alone.

"Rassvet" is a low-Earth orbit satellite communications system being developed by the russian company "Bureau 1440". russia positions it as an analogue of Starlink and presents it as a civilian project. However, on 12 June, Putin told the military that work on the Starlink equivalent was “progressing at a good pace” and expressed the hope that they would “feel the effects of this on the ground in the near future”.

Bureau 1440 launched the first 16 production satellites into orbit in March, and a second group in July. According to Reuters, the company plans to have hundreds of satellites in orbit by next year. At present, this number is insufficient for continuous coverage: according to Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, the russian military can only use the network for a short time whilst a satellite is passing over Ukraine. Experts believe that, due to russia’s limited launch capabilities, the system will not be able to rival Starlink, which has over 10,000 satellites. In mid-August, the Defence Forces struck the "Progress" rocket and space centre in Samara, where "Soyuz-2.1b" rockets are manufactured to launch "Rassvet" satellites. On 28 October, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) published details of dozens of russian and Belarusian enterprises involved in the system’s development.

Source: Office of the President of Ukraine, Forbes Ukraine