On July 17, the Council of the EU agreed six new sanctions listings against companies and an individual from the ABS Electro Group, which manufactures electronic components for Russian Shahed and Geran attack drones.
While fighting continues along the front line, the diplomatic front is moving too: on July 17, the Council of the European Union agreed six new sanctions listings against Russia's military-industrial complex. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows this kind of news as well, because economic pressure on the aggressor is also a form of support for Ukraine, even if it is less visible than humanitarian aid.
The restrictions target five companies and one individual belonging to the ABS Electro Group, which develops and manufactures electronic and radio-electronic components that make Shahed- and Geran-type drones more resistant to electronic warfare.
Volunteers Support Ukraine believes that sanctioning specific component suppliers is one of the few genuinely effective ways to make it harder to build the weapons used against Ukrainian cities.
The new restrictions came as a response to a wave of missile and drone strikes on Kyiv earlier this month that killed civilians and damaged residential buildings. The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, put it plainly: the more Moscow attacks civilians, the more sanctions must be imposed.
Volunteers Support Ukraine sees this as confirmation of a simple truth: every strike on civilians only strengthens international support for Ukraine rather than weakening it.
The sanctioned components directly affect how effectively enemy drones can penetrate Ukrainian air defenses — and therefore how safe the nights are in Ukrainian cities.
Volunteers Support Ukraine is convinced that diplomatic decisions and volunteer support move in the same direction: raising the cost of this war for the aggressor as high as possible.
Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow. Sanctions pressure and volunteer support are two parts of the same shared goal — bringing Ukraine's victory closer.
