New Delhi: The EU Official Journal stated that “The EU imposed restrictions against 217 businessmen, politicians, military, and reporters from Russia, LPR, and DPR within the fifth package of sanctions over the operation in Ukraine,”
“The Council decided to impose restrictive measures on an additional 217 individuals and 18 entities in response to the ongoing unjustified and unprovoked Russian military aggression against Ukraine and other actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine,” the European Council website says.
The listed individuals include ” high-ranking Kremlin officials, oligarchs – Moshe Kantor, Boris Rotenberg, and Oleg Deripaska, other prominent businesspeople involved in key economic sectors such as energy, finance, media, defense, and the arms industry, as well as proponents of disinformation and information manipulation, systematically spreading the Kremlin’s false narrative on the situation in Ukraine,” the website reads.
“The list also includes family members of already sanctioned individuals, in view of the fact that they are benefiting from the regime or to prevent the circumvention of EU sanctions. These designations include Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova and Ekaterina Vladimirovna Tikhonova,” the website says, claiming that the mentioned women are “daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
“Lastly, the so-called ministers and the members of the ‘People’s Council’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ and ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ are also blacklisted,” the European Council said.
The sanctions list also includes Sberbank CEO German Gref, Surgutneftegaz CEO Vladimir Bogdanov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, United Aviation Corporation CEO Yury Slyusar, and others.
The EU also imposed sanctions against top managers of lead Russian media, including All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) chairman Oleg Dobrodeyev, TASS CEO Sergey Mikhailov, and Moskovsky Komsomolets editor-in-chief Pavel Gusev.
The blacklist also includes LPR Prime Minister Sergey Kozlov, DPR Prime Minister Alexander Ananchenko, ministers of both republics, and members of the DPR People’s Council.
Overall, restrictions are currently applied to 1091 people and 80 organizations.
Assets of people on the list are being frozen, and EU citizens and companies are barred from providing funds to them. The affected people are also barred from entering or traveling through EU states.
(VINAYAK)