Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 87, No. 36 

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 14065 of February 21, 2022 

Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting Certain 

Transactions With Respect to Continued Russian Efforts To 

Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of 

Ukraine 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency 

Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 

3, United States Code, 

I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, hereby 

expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

13660 of March 6, 2014, and expanded by Executive Order 13661 of March 

16, 2014, and Executive Order 13662 of March 20, 2014, and relied on 

for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13685 of December 19, 2014, 

and Executive Order 13849 of September 20, 2018, finding that the Russian 

Federation’s purported recognition of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic 

(DNR) or Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) regions of Ukraine contradicts 

Russia’s commitments under the Minsk agreements and further threatens 

the peace, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and 

thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Accordingly, I hereby order: 

Section 1. (a) The following are prohibited: 

(i) new investment in the so-called DNR or LNR regions of Ukraine or 

such other regions of Ukraine as may be determined by the Secretary 

of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State (collectively, 

the ‘‘Covered Regions’’), by a United States person, wherever located; 

(ii) the importation into the United States, directly or indirectly, of any 

goods, services, or technology from the Covered Regions; 

(iii) the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, 

from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, 

of any goods, services, or technology to the Covered Regions; and 

(iv) any approval, financing, facilitation, or guarantee by a United States 

person, wherever located, of a transaction by a foreign person where 

the transaction by that foreign person would be prohibited by this section 

if performed by a United States person or within the United States. 

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to 

the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or 

licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding 

any contract entered into or license or permit granted prior to the date 

of this order. 

Sec. 2. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United 

States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter 

come within the possession or control of any United States person (including 

any foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not 

be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person 

determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: 


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(i) to operate or have operated since the date of this order in the Covered 

Regions; 

(ii) to be or have been since the date of this order a leader, official, 

senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of an entity 

operating in the Covered Regions; 

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to 

act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property 

and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or 

(iv) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, 

or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, 

any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 

to this order. 

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to 

the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or 

licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding 

any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the 

date of this order. 

Sec. 3. The prohibitions in section 2 of this order include but are not 

limited to: 

(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services 

by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to this order; and 

(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services 

from any such person. 

Sec. 4. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading 

or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited. 

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth 

in this order is prohibited. 

Sec. 5. Nothing in this order shall prohibit transactions for the conduct 

of the official business of the Federal Government by employees, grantees, 

or contractors thereof. 

Sec. 6. (a) The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the 

United States of noncitizens determined to meet one or more of the criteria 

in section 2 of this order would be detrimental to the interests of the 

United States, and the entry of such persons into the United States, as 

immigrants or nonimmigrants, is hereby suspended, except where the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, determines that the person’s entry would not be contrary to the interests of 

the United States, including when the Secretary of State or the Secretary 

of Homeland Security, as appropriate, so determines, based on a recommendation of the Attorney General, that the person’s entry would further 

important United States law enforcement objectives. 

(b) The Secretary of State shall implement this authority as it applies 

to visas pursuant to such procedures as the Secretary of State, in consultation 

with the Secretary of Homeland Security, may establish. 

(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall implement this order as 

it applies to the entry of noncitizens pursuant to such procedures as the 

Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 

may establish. 

(d) Such persons shall be treated by this section in the same manner 

as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 

(Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council 

Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions). 

Sec. 7. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the types of 

articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, 

to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property 


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are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to 

deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660, expanded in Executive Orders 13661 and 13662, and further expanded by 

this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 

2 of this order. 

Sec. 8. For the purposes of this order: 

(a) the term ‘‘entity’’ means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, 

corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; 

(b) the term ‘‘person’’ means an individual or entity; 

(c) the term ‘‘United States person’’ means any United States citizen, 

lawful permanent resident, entity organized under the laws of the United 

States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign 

branches), or any person in the United States; 

(d) the term ‘‘noncitizen’’ means any person who is not a citizen or 

noncitizen national of the United States; and 

(e) the term ‘‘region of Ukraine’’ includes the land territory in that region 

as well as any maritime area over which sovereignty, sovereign rights, or 

jurisdiction is claimed based on purported sovereignty over that land territory 

or area. 

Sec. 9. For those persons whose property and interests in property are 

blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence 

in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds 

or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures 

to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. 

I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing 

the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660, expanded in 

Executive Orders 13661 and 13662, and further expanded by this order, 

there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant 

to section 2 of this order. 

Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary 

of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation 

of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President 

by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. 

The Secretary of the Treasury may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate 

any of these functions within the Department of the Treasury. All executive 

departments and agencies of the United States shall take all appropriate 

measures within their authority to implement this order. 

Sec. 11. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise 

affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 


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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

February 21, 2022. 

[FR Doc. 2022–04020 

Filed 2–22–22; 11:15 am] 

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