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Poroshenko imposed sanctions against 84 people from the “Savchenko list”
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on sanctions against people involved, according to Kiev, in the illegal criminal prosecution of Nadezhda Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko.
The sanctions list includes 84 people. Among them are the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin, the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin, the prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya and the leader of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky.
The list also included Pavel Karpov, whom Novaya Gazeta called an assistant to an employee of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation and a curator of right-wing movements, including the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN). Savchenko stated in court that it was Karpov who took her from Luhansk to Russia.
The decision of the National Security and Defense Council contains a list of individuals to whom unlimited personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) will be applied.
- Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced on March 22 to 22 years in prison on charges of murdering VGTRK employees Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin. Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison in August 2015 in connection with the preparation of terrorist attacks in Crimea. Alexander Kolchenko was convicted in the same case, he was imprisoned for 10 years. All the accused refused to admit their guilt. Ukraine demands their release.