EU sanctions major Russian banks, Rosatom, in 10th sanctions package
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The European Union sanctioned 87 individuals and 34 entities linked to the full-scale war in Ukraine in its 10th package of sanctions. The Official Journal of the EU published a list of the sanctioned entities on Feb. 25.
The list includes the following entities and individuals:
- Alfa Bank, Rosbank and Tinkoff Bank;
- a number of Rosatom (Russian nuclear operator) enterprises;
- Rosatomflot (the world's only fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers);
- Organs of the Russian Ministry of Defense;
- The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service;
- The Patriot media group;
- The Russia Today media group;
- The Sputnik news agency;
- Russian Human Rights Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova;
- Yevgeny Primakov, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo, the agency responsible for organizing astroturfed pro-Russian rallies, as well as for recruiting pro-Russian agents;
- Vyacheslav Dukhin, an official in the Moscow City Council and a strong public supporter of the war;
- Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and propagandist Valery Fadeev;
- Vyacheslav Boguslaev, the former head of Motor Sich and a Ukrainian oligarch charged with high treason
A number of top managers of Russian propagandist media were affected, as well as four Iranians, including the director of Iranian state-owned aerospace Qods Aviation Industry Company.
The 10th package of EU sanction was announced on Feb. 25 to mark the first anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the international community to step up pressure on the aggressor country in response to a rumored watered-down package of sanction the EU, in order to present a united front against the Russian armed aggression. Both the U.S. and the U.K. also announced new sanctions meant to restrict Russia’s ability to continue its armed conflict against Ukraine.
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