In the first year of the Russia-Ukraine war, Russia has become the most sanctioned country in the world, surpassing countries such as Iran, Syria and North Korea.
One year into the war Russia launched in Ukraine, Western countries have imposed a large number of sanctions to make Russia pay a heavy economic price.
As the attacks continued, the scope of the sanctions was expanded over time, and sanctions were imposed on Russia in many areas such as finance, energy, transport, media, technology, automobiles, sports and trade.
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The total number of sanctions imposed on Russia exceeded 14,000
According to data from the global sanctions monitoring database Castellum.ai, Russia has been subjected to 11,327 new sanctions since 22 February 2022.
The total number of sanctions imposed on Russia since before the war has reached 14,22.
With this number, Russia surpassed Iran with 4,268 sanctions, Syria with 2,643 sanctions and North Korea with 2,133 sanctions.
Belarus with 1,155 sanctions, Venezuela with 651 sanctions and Myanmar with 839 sanctions were also among the countries with the most sanctions in the world.
The most sanctions against Russia came from the USA
The country with the highest number of sanctions against Russia as of 22 February 2022 was the USA with 1,948 sanctions.
The USA was followed by Switzerland with 1,782 sanctions, Canada with 1,590 sanctions, the UK with 1,429 sanctions, the European Union (EU) with 1,390 sanctions, France with 1,324 sanctions, Australia with 945 sanctions and Japan with 919 sanctions.
Since that date, 9,117 of the sanctions against Russia have been imposed on individuals, 2,90 on organisations, 96 on ships and 24 on aircraft.
The first sanctions were imposed after the recognition of the so-called administrations in eastern Ukraine
On 21 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree on the recognition of the so-called administration of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
In reaction to Putin’s decision, Western countries started to announce the first sanctions against Russia as of 22 February 2022.
On 24 February 2022, Russian President Putin announced that they had launched a special military operation in Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
With the official start of the attack on Ukraine, Western countries increased their sanctions against Russia.
