The ambassadors of the European Union countries have approved sanctions against members of the Wagner private military company.
The news came on December 8 from Rikard Jozwiak, Radio Free Europe reporter in Brussels.
In his tweet Tuesday, he said that ‘EU ambassadors have today decided to green light sanctions against the Wagner group. It will also add 3 people associated with the group on its human rights sanction regime, 1 person on its Libya listings, 3 on its Ukraine list, and 2 people and 3 entities on its Syria list. All from Russia’.
Interestingly, earlier Jozwiak wrote that the new restrictive measures will affect the former officer of the Russian special forces, the head of the group Dmitry Utkin.
PMC contractor in Syria Stanislav Dichko and Valery Zakharov, who is considered to be involved in PMC actions in the Central African Republic, are also subject to sanctions.
It should be noted that for the first time the topic of sanctions against the Wagner group was brought up for discussion in the European Union in mid-November.
Earlier, Apostrophe reported that members of the European Parliament adopted a resolution on human rights violations by Russian militants from the Wagner Group.