EU removes two Russian oligarchs from sanctions list, drawing Ukrainian anger

The European Union removed Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from its Russia sanctions list while extending measures against nearly 3,000 others for three years.

• The EU delisted Usmanov and Fridman as part of a compromise renewing sanctions on roughly 2,600 to 3,000 individuals and entities for 36 months.
• Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said "no name on the sanctions list is there by accident," and Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha called the decision "shameful and unjustifiable."
• Sybiha urged EU member states to impose national sanctions on the two individuals, and Latvia said it would do so.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov welcomed the delistings, calling the EU's sanctions illegal.