{"id":634377,"date":"2026-07-24T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/eu-authorities-include-htx-exchange-in-russian-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:52:49","slug":"eu-authorities-include-htx-exchange-in-russian-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/eu-authorities-include-htx-exchange-in-russian-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"EU authorities include HTX exchange in Russian sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The exchange, already sanctioned by the UK, is now on a list of 18 entities \u201cproviding crypto-assets services or payment services\u201c in defiance of the EU\u2019s measures against Russia.<\/p>\n

The European Union has listed cryptocurrency exchange HTX, formerly Huobi Global, as part of a package of sanctions targeting Russia amid the country\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In a Thursday decision, the European Council amended<\/a> its previous measures \u201cin view of Russia\u2019s actions destabilizing the situation in Ukraine\u201d to include HTX in a list of 18 entities \u201cproviding crypto-assets services or payment services established outside of the Union that are significantly frustrating the purpose of the prohibitions\u201d against Russia. The country continues to face sanctions globally over its war in Ukraine following a military invasion in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Union has repeatedly taken measures to identify financial institutions, credit institutions or entities providing crypto-asset services or payment services that facilitate a continued financial lifeline for Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine, whether by connecting to the system for transfer of financial messages of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation or by enabling the circumvention of Union restrictive measures, and to prohibit any transaction between those institutions or entities and Union operators,\u201d said EU officials.<\/p>\n

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The exchange, already sanctioned by the UK, is now on a list of 18 entities \u201cproviding crypto-assets services or payment services\u201c in defiance of the EU\u2019s measures against Russia. The European Union has listed cryptocurrency exchange HTX, formerly Huobi Global, as part of a package of sanctions targeting Russia amid the country\u2019s war on Ukraine. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-634377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}