On Tuesday 21 November, the EU Council added the governor of Sevastopol, Dmitry Vladimirovich Ovsyannikov, to the list of those submitted to restrictive measures over "actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine".
Ovsyannikov was elected governor of Sevastopol on 10 September (see EUROPE 11860). Appointed temporarily to this post by Russia's President Vladimir Putin on 28 July 2016, he "worked for further integration of the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula into the Russian Federation and is as such responsible for actively supporting or implementing actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine", and in 2017 he made public statements in favour of the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, the legal act published on 21 November states.
Ovsyannikov is now banned from travelling in the EU and his assets have been frozen.
In total, 150 people and 38 entities have been sanctioned due to their actions that undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine. These measures were extended on 14 September 2017 and now run until 15 March 2018 (see EUROPE 11862). (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)