The EU’s 20th Russia package moves anti-circumvention from warning to weapon

The European Commission says the EU’s 20th Russia sanctions package activates the anti-circumvention tool for the first time and lists 120 additional people and entities. The package also targets shadow-fleet vessels, banks, crypto services, trade flows and third-country suppliers, making sanctions advice increasingly inseparable from supply-chain, shipping, payments and counterparty-risk diligence.