The European Union imposed sanctions against the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Gutsan and “Putin’s confessor” Shevkunov

On June 15, the European Union added more than 80 individuals and legal entities associated with Russia to its sanctions lists, the EU Council reported .

A separate set of restrictions concerned the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in 2020. Thus, sanctions were imposed against Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan (pictured) - the EU decision states that he is responsible for recognizing FBK * as a “terrorist organization”, after which mass persecution of Navalny’s supporters began.

The list also included FSB officers, whom investigative journalists associated with spying on the politician, and the former head physician of the Omsk hospital, Alexander Murakhovsky - they claimed that the politician did not fall into a coma due to poisoning.

Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Simferopol and Crimea, whom the media calls “Putin’s confessor,” was included in the sanctions list. According to the EU Council, it

“systematically spreads pro-Kremlin disinformation, including statements about “Nazism” in Ukraine.”

The list also included the head of the St. Petersburg department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Roman Plugin, executive director of Rostec Oleg Yevtushenko, former ombudsman Pavel Astakhov and others.

• Let us remind you that the European Union is preparing the 21st package of sanctions against Russia, the main innovation of which may be a complete ban on entry into the EU for all Russians who served in the army since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine. It is still unclear how the fact of military service will be identified.