The EU Council officially included eleven people in the list of penalties on Ukraine
The Council of the EU on the last working day of the week has officially extended the sanctions List in connection with the situation in Ukraine, incorporating additional eleven people, which the EU considers guilty of undermining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, according to a communique of the Council of the EU.
first the Agency was informed that the relevant agreement was reached at the meeting of ambassadors of EU countries to the European Union on Wednesday.
" Eleven people responsible for supporting such activities in the East of Ukraine, will fall under the travel ban and freezing of assets. This will increase the number of people included in the List of punishments in connection with the territorial integrity, to 72 ", - said in a communique. The list will be placed in a published journal of the EU on the first day weekend, the measures will take effect on the same day.
first of staff of the foreign Ministry reported that the List includes most of the activists from insurgents and one-two Russians. A source in the EU in conversation with Last news EU has not excluded, that in him you have the opportunity to be a high-ranking Russian citizens.
yesterday the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said that the expansion of the EU sanctions list is hostile act, which cannot but affect relations between Russia and the EU. He added that It's " not working method and interaction between States, most between such major players as Russia and the EU ".
After the referendum in the Crimea, the U.S. and EU imposed sanctions against Residents of the Russian Federation. Citizens caught in the sanction lists of the European Union banned entry to the EU, and their possible assets in the countries-members of the Union frozen. In addition, under penalty of the EU were several Crimean plants. While the West has warned that does not step back from the possible introduction of sanctions concerning sectors of the Russian economy in case of escalation of the fall in Ukraine. Moscow, for its part, has stated many times that to talk to Russia in the language of sanctions inappropriate and unproductive.
USA on March 17 decided to impose punishment is relatively high position of Russian politicians and Ministers of foreign Affairs of the EU countries have agreed on the introduction of penalties on the Russian and Ukrainian officials, which they consider to be guilty of " undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine ". Then in the American List of nearly 20 Russian bureaucrats, businessmen and parliamentarians. Was enlarged and the sanctions list of the EU.
the authorities of the USA has included in the List of co-owner of the Rossiya Bank of Yuri Kovalchuk, the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, businessmen Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko. In addition, penalties were imposed on the Bank " Russia ". on April 28, the U.S. included in the sanctions List 7 officials of the Russian Federation and 17 organizations, and the European Union has expanded its List of fifteen people. In the end, in the sanctions lists appear more than 40 Russian politicians and businessmen, as well as among them from the Crimea. Full List of Russian Citizens and organizations that fall under punishment, -