June 22, 2022 – According to White House statements, the “United States, with the G7 and the European Union, will continue to impose severe and immediate economic costs on the Putin regime for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.” As one part of this effort, in a statement by the White House on April 6, 2022, “devastating economic measures to ban new investment in Russia and impose the most severe financial sanctions on Russia’s largest bank and several of its most critical state-owned enterprises and on Russian government officials and their family members.”
This article examines the sanctions program and potential insurance coverage implications of the sanctions.