BRUSSELS, February 25. /TASS/. The European Union has introduced its 10th sanctions package which included a number of Russian officials, public figures, banks and agencies, according to the Official Journal of the EU which published the relevant normative acts on Saturday.
The sanctions list includes Chairman of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeev, surgeon Leonid Roshal, Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation Yevgeny Primakov, Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and 83 others, including prosecutors of the DPR and LPR and the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, as well as members of the Wagner private military company.
The EU has also added Russia’s Alfa-Bank, Tinkoff and Rosbank as well as the National Wealth Fund to the sanctions list.
Blacklisted media structures included the Rossiya Segodnya and Sputnik news agencies while their Arabic-language services were banned from broadcasting in the EU.
In all, 33 Russian companies were included in the sanctions list mostly representing the military-industrial complex, such as Almaz-Antey and Rosatom’s Atomflot. The sanctions list also includes a transport company from the UAE.
According to the EU, all the blacklisted individuals and entities are responsible for "undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine."
Four Iranian nationals have also been sanctioned for allegedly developing drones and delivering them to Russia to be used in combat in Ukraine.
Sanctions against Wagner PMC
The EU also introduced sanctions against Wagner PMC.
"The Wagner Group’s activities are a threat for the people in the countries where they operate and the European Union. They endanger international peace and security as they do not operate within any legal framework. The EU is determined to continue taking tangible action against breaches to international law. We stand up for human rights everywhere," the official website of the European Council quoted EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell as saying.
The sanctions list includes, among others, Head of the Fund for the Protection of National Values Maxim Shugaley, head of the Wagner Group in Mali Ivan Maslov and spokesman for the Wagner Group in the CAR Alexander Ivanov.