The Wagner Group and associated media on the sanctions list. The Union extended the restrictions by another package

EU rules on Russia were extended once again on Thursday. The Wagner group and the media company RIA FAN, which are associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin – a businessman and friend of the president, have been blacklisted. Their assets have been frozen in Europe.

EU sanctions are intended to hit the Wagner group

Yevgeny Prigozhin funds brutal mercenaries from combatants in various parts of the world, now taking an active part in the Russian assault on . It was the Wagnerians who launched the attacks on Sołedar and Bachmut. In turn, RIA FAN is an information portal belonging to the “media factory” of Prigozhin (Patriot Media Group, Prigozhin is the chairman of its supervisory board), which spreads Russian disinformation and propaganda about the war in Ukraine. In total, there are 1,473 people and 207 companies, institutions and organizations on the EU sanctions blacklist for actions threatening Ukraine’s independence.

More US sanctions

announced sanctions hitting the Wagnerians just a day after another sanctions package was presented by the United States. which is controlled by Russia. The list also includes the heads of the institutions – the Russians Nikolai Kosov and Georgy Potapov, and the Hungarian citizen Imre Lászloczki.

After the sanctions were imposed, they decided to withdraw people from the MBI and their shares in the institution to which the name “spy bank” stuck, for the sake of contacts with Russian intelligence services. Four years ago, its headquarters were moved from Moscow to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, and the Russian authorities wanted to use the institution as a substitute for a tax haven. After Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, the position of the “spy bank” has deteriorated significantly and is on the verge of solvency.