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The European Union imposed sanctions against Prigozhin

The EU added another name to the "Libyan" sanctions list - it included "Putin's chef" Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The EU committee announced sanctions against Prigozhin in a document following the list of sanctions in connection with the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Although the lists are different, they have the same political significance, notes the Suddeutsche Zeitung.

It is indicated that “Prigozhin supports the activities of the Wagner group (meaning the Wagner PMC. - The Bell) in Libya, which threatens the country's security, its peace and stability.”

The document also states that the Wagner PMC "is involved in repeated violations of the arms embargo against Libya, established by a UN Security Council resolution, including the supply of weapons, as well as the deployment of mercenaries." “The Wagner Group took part in numerous military operations <…> and contributed to undermining the stability of Libya and the peace settlement,” the document says. We talked about what Prigozhin's mercenaries did in Libya here .

Prigozhin has publicly stated that he intends to "undress and undress" Navalny in connection with the "Moscow Schoolboy" case (more about it here ). At the suit of Prigozhin's company, was arrested . the oppositionist's apartment in Moscow
On Thursday, October 15, six Russian officials and one organization were included in a separate EU sanctions list in connection with the poisoning of Navalny. Among the defendants are First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District Sergei Menyailo, and the Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (GosNIIOKhT), where Novichok was supposedly developed.
All persons on the list are prohibited from entering the EU, and their accounts, if found in the territory of the union, will be frozen.
Dmitry Peskov said today that the Kremlin sees no logic in the sanctions list, that the EU has thereby "harmed relations with our country," and Russia's response will follow and will be in its interests.