The Council of the European Union approved sanctions against members of the private military company Wagner and three companies associated with it.
This was announced by the correspondent of Radio Liberty Rikard Jozwiak.
& # 8212; Sanctions against the Wagner group have been approved: the list includes three energy companies and eight people associated with the mercenary group. The decision will be published in the official EU journal later today, & # 8212; he wrote on Twitter.
special forces, the head of the group Dmitry Utkin, one of the contractors of PMCs in Syria Stanislav Dichko and involved in the activities of PMCs in the Central African Republic Valery Zakharov.
Wagner's private military company is an unofficial military organization that is not part of the regular armed forces of Russia and has no legal status. At the official level, its existence is denied.
But it is with her that horrendous crimes against humanity and violation of international humanitarian law are associated with the whole world.
So, Wagner's PMC was one of the brigades that fought on the side of Russia in the Donbass. In addition, the Wagnerites were recently exposed for the atrocities they committed in the Central African Republic.
