Involved in deportation of children from Ukraine: Ombudsman Moskalkova could be covered by EU sanctions

The European Union plans to “blacklist” Russian Federation officials involved in the abduction and removal of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories. This is reported by the EUobserver portal.

Restrictions will be placed on three top Russian officials as part of the EU’s tenth package of sanctions against the aggressor state. The list included:

• Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation;
• Vyacheslav Duhin, Deputy Head of the Moscow Government;
• Lenara Ivanova, Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection of Bashkiria.

They are threatened with visa bans and asset freezes for helping to organize the mass abduction of Ukrainian children from the occupied areas of our country.

That’s why the EU’s draft “black list” for the tenth package of sanctions says Ivanova is one of the key figures involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and the subsequent illegal adoption by Russian families.

In turn, Duhin facilitated the illegal adoption of children by families living in his territory and sought to grant them Russian citizenship.

And Moskalkova on the air denied the operation of the filtering camps, through which thousands of children pass in the regions of Ukraine occupied by the Russian Armed Forces.

Anti-Russia sanctions: who else was on the European Union’s “black list”?

European officials also added Russian Major General Aleksey Avdeev to the updated sanctions list for being in areas where the Russian military is persecuting civilians.

Air Force Commander Mikhail Teplinskiy, who was in Bucha while the Russian army tortured and killed civilians in the city, could also be covered by the sanctions.

Also on the list is Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, who is responsible for strategic bombardment of civilian infrastructure such as heating and water supply.

It also adds 28 organizations to the new blacklist, facing an EU asset freeze and job ban. Between them:

• Alpha Bank;
• Rosbank;
• Tinkoff Bank;
• media holding Patriot Media Group;
• The media holding Russia Today;
• insurance company “Ingosstrakh”.

Note that the “black list” is part of a broader 10th package of sanctions, which includes an 11 billion euro embargo on exports of high-tech products from the EU and a ban on the publication of Arabic publications. Arabic and Sputnik.

The tenth package of EU sanctions: how did they react in Russia?

On Monday, February 20, Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Region Vyacheslav Duhin reacted to the information about the project and demanded that it be included in the sanctions list.

“The work in which children from the DNR and LNR are left without parents, finding families in Russia, and especially in the Moscow region, is a virtue of many people. The fact that I am leading It is a great honor for me to participate in this,” he said.

He also stated that in 2022, more than 130 children from occupied Donbass were taken to Russia. According to the official, they found foster families in Russia.

Recall that on February 15, the EU spoke about the tenth package of sanctions against Russia. The focus will be on new bans and export controls on technology, including UAVs, helicopters and missiles.

Focus he also wrote that in early February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was imposing new sanctions against the Russians. The new sanctions list mainly consists of entrepreneurs or company executives. Under the restrictions were Yuri Ushakov and employees of Rosatom, the closest deputy to the President of the Russian Federation in charge of foreign economic policy.