Ukraine sanctions Russian UAV-related entities and individuals (Presidential Decree No. 871/2025)

Mechanism

Decree No. 871/2025 is a routine instrument of Ukraine's sanctions architecture: the President signs into force NSDC decisions recommended by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) that designate specific Russian entities and individuals for "personal special economic and other restrictive measures" under Ukraine's sanctions law. This particular tranche, dated 29 November 2025 and entering into force upon publication on 2 December 2025, was characterised by Global Trade Alert as targeting entities tied to Russian UAV (drone) production and operational support — consistent with Ukraine's ongoing practice of using personal sanctions to name and disrupt supply chains feeding Russia's drone-warfare programme (components, assembly, training and logistics support), which has intensified through the war.

The underlying NSDC decision and its entity/individual annexes were not independently reproduced in full on the public-facing pages consulted (the presidential website blocked automated access; the Rada's legal portal mirror confirms the decree's existence, date, and enactment mechanism but does not display the full entity list in the fetched excerpt). Severity is set at 2 (qualitative), reflecting a routine, narrow-scope personal-designation tranche rather than a sectoral or systemic measure — consistent with how the register treats similar single-country personal sanctions listings elsewhere (e.g. the UK's Rybar network designation).

Downstream implications

• Adds to the growing list of entities barred from commercial dealings

with Ukrainian persons/entities on the grounds of supporting Russia's UAV programme, part of the broader Western-aligned effort to squeeze drone-supply-chain inputs (components, optics, electronics) to Russia.

• Reinforces the Ukraine-Russia sanctions architecture's cadence of

near-weekly NSDC decisions, each targeting a fresh slice of the Russian military-industrial and enabling network.

Open questions

• The specific named entities/individuals in the decree's annexes were

not confirmed from public sources during this filing; only the GTA characterisation ("UAV-related entities") is available. Follow-up should check Ukraine's State Register of Sanctions (drs.nsdc.gov.ua/actions) for the full designee list once accessible.

• Whether any of the designated entities overlap with existing EU/US/UK

sanctions lists (duplicative multilateral designation vs. a genuinely new Ukraine-only listing) is unconfirmed.