The European Union and the UK have announced coordinated sanctions against Russia after accusing Moscow's FSB intelligence agency of carrying out a cyber attack in December targeting Poland's energy grid and orchestrating a wider campaign of digital sabotage across Europe.
The joint measures focus on individuals and organisations linked to Russia's security services, with the EU imposing sanctions on nine people and four entities, while Britain added 24 names to its sanctions list.
The UK government said the package – the first joint cyber sanctions announced with the EU – was aimed at "the Russian state's persistent and increasingly reckless attempts to sow chaos and division across Europe".
The EU said countries including France, Germany, Poland, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Austria, Slovakia, Romania and Finland had been targeted in a cyber campaign stretching back years.
The attempted attack on Poland's critical infrastructure in the winter of 2025, including its electricity grid, has been attributed to the FSB's Centre 16 intelligence unit.
