Key takeaways:

• The European Union has expanded the criteria for its Russia/Ukraine sanctions regime, imposing sanctions on a further 13 individuals.
• For the first time in connection with the Ukraine crisis, the EU has also frozen the assets of two companies, one of which was previously blocked by US sanctions.
• The United States has issued new regulations clarifying and updating its Syrian and Ukraine-related sanctions programs, and it has frozen the assets of a Russian bank and its chairman under the US-Syria sanctions program.