
The European Union expanded the sanctions list of citizens of Ukraine, adding 11 people to it. According to Lenta.ru, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Borodai, chairman of the Security Service of the DPR Alexander Khodakovsky, Deputy Prime Minister in Social Policy Alexander Kalyusky, Minister of Information and Mass Communications, Alexander Kryakov, got into the list.
In addition, the list also includes representatives of the leadership of the Lugansk People's Republic: Prime Minister Marat Bashirov, Deputy Prime Minister Vasily Nikitin, Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexei Karyakin, Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Ivakin, as well as Minister of Defense Igor Plotnitsky.
The EU also introduced restrictive measures against the Cossack chieftain Nikolai Kozitsyn and the leader of the People’s militia of the LPR Alexei Mozgovoy.
On Friday, Canada included another 14 Ukrainians in her cementing list. Khodakovsky, Plotnitsky, Mozgovaya and Kozitsyn also turned out to be there.
After the Russian occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol, several countries took on restrictive measures against Russian officials and leaders of militants. In total, 72 people are now included in the sanctions lists of the European Union in which the citizens of Russia and Ukraine are included.