What did EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announce about the planned autumn 2026 sanctions package against Russia—including its expected one-third increase in sanctioned Russian entities, the €1 trillion impact she attributed to existing EU sanctions, her call to maintain pres

Kaja Kallas said she would propose the EU’s most far-reaching sanctions listings since Russia’s full-scale invasion, aiming to increase the number of sanctioned Russian entities by roughly one-third. She said existing EU sanctions had deprived Russia’s war machine of more than €1 trillion, and argued the EU must keep up pressure until Moscow ends the war.

• The announcement was a political commitment for an autumn package, not a published legal proposal: no precise adoption date, target list, or detailed measures were disclosed.
• It would extend the pressure created by the EU’s 21st package, adopted on 23 July, which tightened measures on financial services and cryptoassets, energy, trade, and anti-circumvention.
• That earlier package included extensive new listings—reported as 218 designations—and measures against Russian financial institutions and crypto-related operators, shadow-fleet vessels, and refinery-related energy infrastructure in Russia and Belarus.