CELEX: 32021D2196
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/2196 of 13 December 2021 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

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                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  LI 445/14
               
            
         COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2021/2196
         of 13 December 2021
         amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
         THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,
         Having regard to the proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     On 17 March 2014, the Council adopted Decision 2014/145/CFSP (1).
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     In view of the involvement in Ukraine of the Wagner Group, a Russia-based unincorporated private military entity, in actions that undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, in particular in Donbas, the Council considers that three persons should be added to the list of persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures set out in the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     The Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The persons listed in the Annex to this Decision shall be added to the list set out in the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP.
         
         
            Article 2
            This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 13 December 2021.
            
               
                  For the Council
               
               
                  The President
               
               J. BORRELL FONTELLES
            
         
         
            (1)  Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP of 17 March 2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 16).
      
      
         
            ANNEX
            The following persons are added to the list of persons, entities and bodies set out in the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP:
            
               
                            
                        
                        
                           Name
                        
                        
                           Identifying information
                        
                        
                           Reasons
                        
                        
                           Date of listing
                        
                     
                           ‘201.
                        
                        
                           Dimitriy(Dimitry, Dmitri, Dmitry) Valerievich UTKIN
                           (Дмитрий Валерьевич УТКИН)
                        
                        
                           Position(s): Founder and Commander of the Wagner Group; CEO of Concord Management and Consulting
                           Rank: Lieutenant Colonel (Russian military)
                           Callsign: Vagner/Wagner
                           DOB: 1.6.1970 or 11.6.1970
                           Wagner Group ID: M-0209
                           POB: Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast, former USSR (now Russian Federation)
                           Nationality: Russian
                           Address: Pskov, Russian Federation
                           Gender: male
                        
                        
                           Dimitriy Utkin, a former Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer, is the founder of the Wagner Group and responsible for coordinating and planning operations for the deployment of Wagner Group mercenaries in Ukraine.
                           In his commanding position within the Wagner Group, he was personally present on the combat field in Ukraine coordinating and planning the activities of Wagner members.
                           Given his commanding position, he is thus responsible for and has actively implemented actions which have undermined and threatened the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
                        
                        
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                           202.
                        
                        
                           Denis Yurievich KHARITONOV
                           (Денис Юрьевич ХАРИТОНОВ)
                        
                        
                           Position(s): Deputy regional head of the Astrakhan branch of the Union of Donbass Volunteers; member of Duma of Astrakhan Oblast; Wagner Group mercenary
                           DOB: 16.3.1980
                           POB: Astrakhan Oblast, Russian SFSR
                           Nationality: Russian
                           Passport: 76 2759110
                           Issued by MVD 30001
                           Expiry Date: 10.3.2030
                           Address: Village of Ilyinka, Astrakhan Oblast, Russian Federation
                           Gender: male
                        
                        
                           Denis Kharitonov is deputy regional head of the Astrakhan branch of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, member of Duma of Astrakhan Oblast and Wagner Group mercenary.
                           He fought in Donbas in the separatist Steppe battalion, where he commanded a portable anti-aircraft missile complex platoon. He admitted that he personally shot down a Ukrainian helicopter and two Su-25 aircraft while in Donbas.
                           He received the Russian Federation’s Order of Merit for the Fatherland. He also received internal Wagner Groups awards as well as awards from the head of the Union of Donbas Volunteers and former prime minister of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Borodai (subject to restrictive measures on the basis of Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP). Thereby he actively supported actions and implemented policies, which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
                        
                        
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                           203.
                        
                        
                           Sergey Vladimirovich SHCHERBAKOV
                           (Сергей Владимирович ЩЕРБАКОВ)
                        
                        
                           Position(s): Freelance employee of the Russian GRU and Wagner group mercenary
                           DOB: 21.7.1981
                           Nationality: Russian
                           Address: Possibly: Astrakhan, Kirovskiy rayon, Raskolnikova 11 app. 5, Russian Federation
                           Gender: male
                        
                        
                           Sergey Shcherbakov is a freelance employee of the Russian GRU and a Wagner Group mercenary.
                           He fought in Donbas for the pro-Russian separatist forces as a member of a portable anti-aircraft missile complex military unit within the pro-Russian separatist Steppe battalion which shot down an Ukrainian helicopter and two Su-25 aircraft in Donbas. Thereby he actively supported actions and implemented policies, which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
                        
                        
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