The EU added Medvedev, Mishustin, Kolokoltsev to the sanctions list and recorded in the document
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The European Union (EU) has included in the sanctions lists the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and other Russian officials. This is stated in a document published in the official journal of the EU, RIA Novosti reports.
In addition, the actor and State Duma deputy Dmitry Pevtsov, former Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Konstantin Zatulin, State Duma deputy and former children's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova, deputy Oleg Morozov were blacklisted.
The EU document also confirmed the imposition of sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The application is accompanied by a list of 98 names of all those blacklisted by the EU, the number of defendants in which thus increased to 670 people.
The European Union also imposed sanctions against Belarusian officials. The State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic Alexander Volfovich, Deputy Defense Minister Andrey Zhuk and Chief of the General Staff Viktor Gulevich got into them.
Earlier, the representative of the European Union (EU) for foreign affairs and security policy, Josep Borrell, said that the foreign ministers of the countries of the organization decided to impose sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. According to the head of European diplomacy, all options for new restrictions, including Russia's disconnection from SWIFT, “remain on the table.”
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special operation in the Donbass. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced the introduction of martial law in Ukraine and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Russian side.
