Sanctions lists of U.S., EU, UK, Japan, and Australia include 161 Ukrainian companies

The Ukrainian companies were included in:

1. The sanctions list of the U.S. Treasury

2. The European Union's sanctions list

3. Australia's Consolidated List of sanctions

4. The consolidated list of individuals/entities to which UK financial sanctions have been applied

5. The sanctions list of Japan against the Russian Federation in connection with the events in Ukraine

The "black list" includes:

Ukrainian branches of Russian banks.

Namely, Sberbank, Prominvestbank, VTB Bank are on the sanctions lists of the U.S. and Japan. In particular, a number of transactions by U.S. individuals and legal entities or those in the U.S. territory were banned with regard to Sberbank.

Legal entities belonging to the political environment of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Namely, the companies owned by Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, former energy minister Eduard Stavytskiy and politician Viktor Medvedchuk were included in the sanctions list of the U.S. Department of State. All assets of the entities and individuals are blocked within the U.S, while the U.S.-based legal entities and individuals are prohibited from dealing with the said companies.

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Legal entities belonging to persons on the Myrotvorets website's list.

Heads of the militant groups of the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" (self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics): the leader of "DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko, Pavel Gubarev, who is responsible for recruiting for "DPR" armed forces, proclaiming himself "people's governor," the so-called ex-minister of "LPR" Internal Affairs Yuri Ivankin, chairman of the so-called State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov, and others – they all are subject to restrictive measures in the UK for destabilizing the situation in Ukraine. They are also prohibited from entering the EU.

State-owned enterprises located in the occupied areas and run by the occupying regime.

State-owned enterprises Novyi Svit winery and Kerch Marine merchant seaport, state-run concern National Industrial-Agrarian Association Massandra, the Crimean Republican Enterprise Azovsky Distillery, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada's Nizhnaya Oreanda health center, and others.

Due to the fact that the enterprises' property was transferred contrary to the Ukrainian legislation, the restrictive measure provides for the blocking of assets, that is a temporary restriction of a person's right to use and dispose of the property.

Experts advise businesses to check their counteragents and, if found on the sanctions lists, immediately cease cooperation with them.