The EU-European Union has imposed sanctions such as asset freezes in the EU against Russian private military company "Wagner" and its related parties, alleging that it is violent in conflict zones around the world and violates human rights. I decided to impose it.
The EU held a foreign ministers' meeting on the 13th and decided to impose sanctions on asset freezes and travel bans in the EU on eight people and three groups including the founder together with the Russian private military company "Wagner".
The reason is that he has been involved in serious human rights violations such as torture and executions in eastern Ukraine, Libya, Syria, etc., and has been engaged in activities to destabilize the region, and it is also a threat to the EU. ..
This private military company is said to be funded by a businessman close to President Putin, but the Putin administration includes the involvement that there is no legal private military company different from the private security company. I'm denying it.
Meanwhile, Russia's independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, headed by Mr. Muratov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, said on the 13th that some officials of a private military company sanctioned by the EU once putin. He said that he was in a commemorative photo with the president and pointed out the connection with the administration.