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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 strengthens and clarifies U.S. sanctions tools to increase pressure on Russia (and preserves Iran sanctions) while protecting humanitarian and diplomatic flows, but does so at the cost of higher compliance and trade costs, concentrated executive authority, administrative burdens, and potential loopholes that could blunt pressure.
U.S. policymakers and financial regulators can more rapidly and clearly block Russian-linked vessels, banks, officials, and new financing (including prohibiting U.S. purchases of Russian sovereign debt), increasing pressure on Russia's ability to finance its war in Ukraine.
Hospitals, patients, humanitarian organizations, vessel crews, and diplomatic staff can continue receiving and moving food, medicines, medical devices and certain medical isotopes, and can carry out consular/diplomatic operations because of explicit humanitarian and diplomatic exemptions.
Firms, regulators, and financial institutions gain clearer legal definitions, retained pre-enactment Treasury licenses, Treasury authority for general licenses, and a severability clause, improving enforcement certainty and continuity for sanctioned activities.
U.S. banks, brokers, insurers, and other businesses face substantial compliance burdens and secondary economic effects (lost opportunities, supply-chain disruptions) that can raise costs for consumers and taxpayers.
Broad recurring mandatory sanction reviews, automatic visa revocations, long waiver authorities, and making sanctions permanent concentrate executive power and limit Congress's and diplomats' ability to reassess or adapt policy.
A 500% ad valorem duty on Russian imports plus restrictions on maritime insurance and vessel designations could disrupt shipping and logistics, raising costs for U.S. importers, small businesses, and consumers.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Expands and clarifies U.S. sanctions authorities and definitions related to Russia, creates exceptions for humanitarian/medical/agricultural and official activity, and makes a provision of the Iran Sanctions Act permanent.
Creates detailed definitions and new authorities to expand and clarify U.S. sanctions targeting the Russian Federation, including who and what counts as a "foreign person," which sectors are covered, and what goods or activities are excepted. It builds in repeated presidential review requirements, lists specific Russian military and cyber entities, and sets standards (for example, for "adequate maritime insurance"). The bill also adds carve-outs for humanitarian, medical, agricultural, diplomatic, and certain nuclear cooperation activities and provides wind‑down safe harbors for specified entities and transactions. Separately, it amends the Iran Sanctions Act to remove a prior sunset provision, making the cited sanctions authority permanent.