Poroshenko imposed sanctions against 84 persons from the "Savchenko-Sensov List"

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the introduction of personal sanctions against 84 persons involved in the illegal criminal prosecution of Ukrainian citizens Nadezhda Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko. This was reported by the press service of the head of state.

Among the listed are the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, deputy prosecutor general Viktor Grin, Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky. The list includes judges, investigators, prosecutors, security forces, participants in the illegal armed groups of the LPR, as well as witnesses of the accusations.

The sanctions are introduced indefinitely. The Government of Ukraine and the SBU with the participation of the National Bank should ensure the implementation and monitoring of the effectiveness of sanctions. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is instructed to inform the competent authorities of the European Union, the USA and other states in order to consider them the issue of imposing similar sanctions.

Poroshenko instructed to prepare proposals for the application of sanctions to persons involved in unlawful actions against other citizens of Ukraine.

On March 25, the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine unanimously supported the application of personal sanctions to persons who committed a crime against Savchenko, Sentsov and other citizens of Ukraine. "The list included persons involved in the abduction, illegal detention, torture, falsification of cases, organizing and issuing custom and worthless from the legal point of view of" sentences "of Russian courts. Among people who were included in the sanctions list, heads and employees of the FSB, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor's office, the judicial corps, the military and others," the SNBO reported.

Opening a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, Poroshenko emphasized that the "list of Savchenko-Sensov" includes persons who factory cases against Kolchenko, Stanislav Klykh, Nikolai Karpyuk and other Ukrainians illegally imprisoned in Russia. The president also instructed to finalize the list and add persons involved in the torture of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in Crimea.

"This decision (on the adoption of the sanctions list. - Ed.) Does not stop our hard work on the immediate liberation of Nadezhda Savchenko and other Ukrainian heroes," Poroshenko said.