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Official title: To impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation if the Government of the Russian Federation refuses to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine, violates any such agreement, or initiates another military invasion of Ukraine, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Brian K. Fitzpatrick · Last progress December 18, 2025
The bill tightens and clarifies U.S. sanctions authorities—strengthening the ability to cut off Russian financing and preserving pressure tools (including on Iran)—while protecting humanitarian and winding‑down activities; the trade‑off is higher compliance costs, potential shipping and trade disruptions, expanded executive power and longer‑term economic impacts on U.S. firms and global transactions.
U.S. policymakers and allied partners: the bill strengthens the ability to quickly block Russian-linked vessels, banks, officials and to treat allied sanctions as prima facie evidence, reducing Russia's ability to finance and sustain its war in Ukraine.
Hospitals, patients, humanitarian organizations and vessel crews: explicit humanitarian and medical exemptions preserve flows of food, medicines, medical devices, certain medical isotopes, and crew provisions despite sanctions, helping avoid health and environmental harm.
Firms, regulators and financial institutions: the bill preserves and clarifies sanctions authorities (pre-enactment licenses remain valid; Treasury can issue/extend licenses) and includes a severability clause, giving legal certainty for enforcement and compliance planning.
U.S. banks, brokers, insurers and their customers: the bill imposes substantial ongoing compliance burdens and disrupts business with Russian‑linked clients, likely raising costs that are passed on to customers and taxpayers.
All Americans and Congress: making and expanding sanctions authorities (including permanence for some sanctions and recurring automatic measures like visa revocations) concentrates executive power and limits Congressional ability to reassess or repeal sanctions when conditions change.
U.S. investors, businesses and consumers: the risk of secondary sanctions and related prohibitions can cause lost business opportunities, supply‑chain disruptions, and higher costs for international financial transactions.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Creates statutory definitions and sector coverage for Russia sanctions, adds exceptions (humanitarian, diplomatic, nuclear cooperation, transit oil), and makes part of the Iran Sanctions Act permanent.
Establishes a detailed sanctions framework targeting Russia by defining key terms (including Russian military and cyber actors, blocked property, and critical infrastructure sectors), expanding the list of covered infrastructure sectors, and requiring repeated presidential reviews of sanctions. It also creates narrowly drawn exceptions and wind‑down rules for specific humanitarian, commercial, diplomatic, and nuclear cooperation activities, and preserves existing Treasury licensing authorities. Additionally, the bill makes a permanent change to U.S. law by removing the sunset provision from a provision of the Iran Sanctions Act, leaving that sanctions authority in place indefinitely. Overall the measure strengthens sanction authorities while carving out targeted exemptions to limit humanitarian or U.S. government operational disruptions.