On Monday, 26 July, the Ukrainian president enacted a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), which imposed economic sanctions against six individuals and ten entities, including three non-profit organizations related to the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peopleās Republic.
Among the companies subject to sanctions is the Russian e-tailer Wildberries, as well as its divisions in other states including Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Poland.
The sanctions list also contains non-profit organizations that, although French-registered, represent the interests of Russian occupation forces in Donbas and the Russian occupation administration of the Crimean peninsula. These include:
- the NGO āOfficial Representative Center of the Donetsk Peopleās Republic in Franceā
- the NGO āAssociation of the Representation of the Donetsk Peopleās Republic in Franceā
- the NGO āFrance-Crimea Associationā
The decision contains provisions on freezing assets; restrictions on withdrawing capital from Ukraine; suspension of performing economic and financial obligations; termination of the provision of telecommunication services and the use of public telecommunication networks; prohibition of technology transfers and rights to intellectual property rights; and a number of other restrictive measures.
The names of the newly listed individuals are:
- ŠŠ°kŠ°lchuk Š¢Š°ŃianŠ° (co-founder of Wildberries)
- ŠŠ°kŠ°lchuk VlŠ°dislŠ°v (co-founder of Wildberries)
- RŠµviashko Andrei (co-founder of Wildberries)
- Kuzmenko Aleksei (co-founder of Wildberries)
- Fayard GĆ©rald-Hubert (founder of the NGO āOfficial Representative Center of the Donetsk Peopleās Republic in Franceā)
- Neant Christel (employee of the International Press Center Doni)
Ukraine froze all of these individualsā assets, imposed restrictions on withdrawal of their capital from Ukraine and suspended the performance of economic and financial obligations. Click here to obtain access to the NSDCās website for detailed information.
