New Delhi, June 9 -- The European Union's proposed 21st sanctions package against Russia would extend transaction bans to two additional Russian ports and four airports, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced Tuesday, adding a layer of pressure on Russia's transport and logistics network that previous packages left largely intact.

Astrakhan, Makhachkala, Ust-Luga, Primorsk, and Novorossiysk - alongside six airports including Vnukovo, Zhukovsky, and Pskov International, as Clyde & Co documented at the time.

That instrument was designed to cut off commercial and financial flows to infrastructure nodes deemed critical to the price-cap evasion network. Under the ban, EU entities cannot engage in any transaction, directly or indirectl...