Brussels, 14/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Saturday 12 July, the European Union took out sanctions on another 11 people connected with the Ukrainian crisis, when it published their names in the official journal of the European Union. These 11 people include nine “ministers”' from the people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (see EUROPE 11120).
The “prime minister” of the people's republic of Donetsk (PRD), Aleskansandr Yurevich Borodai, his minister for security, Alexander Khodokovsky, and his de facto deputy prime minister and minister for social affairs, Alexandr Aleksandrovich Kalyussky, are now subject to an assets freeze and visa ban in the EU. They are held responsible for the “governmental” separatist activities of the “government” of the “people's republic of Donetsk”. For his part, the minister for information and the media in the PRD, Alexander Khryakov, is considered responsible for the pro-separatist propaganda activities of this government.
The “prime minister” of the “council of ministers of the people's republic of Donetsk”, Marat Bashirov, the deputy minister of this council, Vasyl Nikitin, the president of the supreme council of the “people's republic of Luhansk”, Aleksey Karyakin, the minister of the interior, Yurij Ivakin, and the “minister for defence” of this people's republic, Igor Potnitsky, also had sanctions taken out against them due to their responsibility in the governmental separatist activities of the “government” of the “people's republic of Luhansk”.
The commander of the Cossack forces, Nikolay Kozitsy, who is responsible for commanding the separatists in the east of Ukraine fighting against the Ukrainian government forces, and one of the chiefs of the armed groups in the east of Ukraine, Oleksiy Mozhovy, who is responsible for training the separatists with a view to fighing the Ukrainian government forces, were also added to the list of sanctioned persons. In totally, 72 people are now subject to restrictive measures in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. (CG)