The EU sanctions list will include Tatyana Moskalkova, human rights commissioner to the Russian president, Vyacheslav Duhin, deputy chairman of the Moscow region government, and Lenara Ivanova, head of Bashkiria’s labor ministry. On this subject writing EUobserver with a link to a draft document dated February 14.
Sanctions against Moskalkova, as appears from this document, European officials want to introduce because the Ombudsman denied the existence of “camps” in the territories under Russian control, in which “interrogated, detained and forcibly expelled 900,000 to 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including thousands of children.
Duhin, according to the authors of the document, “facilitated the illegal adoption of Ukrainian children by families in his region”, and the Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection of Bashkiria, Lenara Ivanova, was allegedly ” one of the main people involved. in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia followed by illegal adoptions by Russian families.
Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Government declared RBC, which considers it an honor to participate in the search for families for orphaned children in the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Duchin said that in 2022, more than 130 children were removed from the area of military operations in the Moscow region and placed there with foster families who “passed the strictest selection”.
“All the children who were sent to us at that time had already been in the social institutions of the DPR and the LPR for a long time. These children did not remember their parents and desperately needed a family. Our task was to save them from constant shelling from the Ukrainian side,” the official said.
In total, according to EUobserver, the EU plans to blacklist 62 people and 28 structures. We are talking about deputy ministers, deputies of the State Duma and senators of the Federation Council, prosecutors, military commanders, as well as several employees of the state media, the Ingosstrakh insurance company, the Russian National Reinsurance Company (RNRC), the National Social Welfare Fund (NWF) and other individuals and organizations.
Following the meeting of the Council of the European Union on February 20, the head of the EU’s external service, Josep Borrell declared that the tenth package of sanctions against Russia will enter into force by February 24, despite the obstacles to its discussion. “We are about to approve sanctions. They will be approved in the next few hours or days, before February 24 – in any case. The remaining obstacles will be overcome. This is the ministers’ commitment. I am sure we will introduce sanctions before the end of the week,” he said.
Happy February 20 reported that the permanent representatives of the EU countries plan to finalize the tenth package of sanctions against Russia during a meeting on February 22, the meeting is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. (12:45 p.m. Moscow time).
