Poroshenko hopes U.S., Europe sanction individuals on Savchenko-Sentsov List

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects his U.S. and European partners to display solidarity in imposing sanctions on a number of Russian and Ukrainian citizens, including judges, prosecutors, and investigators involved in unlawful actions in relation to Ukrainian citizens Nadia Savchenko, Oleh Sentsov, and Oleksandr Kolchenko.

"We have approved the sanctions list against individuals who had partaken in the farce trials against Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. The so-called Savchenko-Sentsov List. Very similar to the Magnitsky List. We expect that our US. .and European partners will join this initiative," he president said at the 'Ukraine's Battle for Freedom Continues' forum in Washington on Thursday.

The Savchenko-Sentsov sanctions list, which was introduced by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and enacted by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, is made up of citizens of Russia and Ukraine, including judges, prosecutors and investigators involved in the unlawful criminal cases against Ukraine's Nadia Savchenko, Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko.

According to the annex to the resolution of the National Security and Defense Council dated March 25, 2016, the list of individuals, who are subject to restrictive measures (sanctions) includes: Russian citizen, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, who has been banned access to the territory of Ukraine. His assets have been frozen, his right to use and dispose of property belonging to him has been temporarily restricted; the withdrawal of funds outside Ukraine has been prohibited and other sanctions provided by law have been applied against him.

The same sanctions apply to the following Russian citizens: Russia's Federal Security Service Chief, General Alexander Bortnikov, the prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya and others.

The Ukrainian citizens who fall under the sanctions include former leader of an illegal armed formation of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Valeriy Bolotov and leader of an illegal armed formation of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky. The sanctions include assets freezing, temporary restrictions on the right to use and dispose of their property and other restrictions.

The sanctions also apply to judges, prosecutors, investigators and witnesses involved in the unlawful prosecution of Savchenko, Sentsov and Kolchenko.

The sanctions list includes: judges of the Moscow City Court Igor Alisov, Natalya Nikishina, Natalya Olikhver; judge of the Moscow Regional Court of the Russian Federation Regina Bogacheva; judge of the Lefortovo District Court in Moscow Yelena Galikhanova; judge of Kievsky District Court of Simferopol Yanina Okhota; Chairman of the Donetsk City Court of the Rostov region of the Russian Federation Ali Khaibulayev; senior investigator of the 2nd investigation department of the office for the investigation of crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare of the Russian Investigative Committee Dmitry Bokunovich; senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service Artem Burdin; investigator of the Federal Security Service K.V. Selivanov; employee of the prosecutor's office of Russia's Voronezh region Yevgeny Butyrin; deputy head of the Federal Security Service of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol Sergei Voronin; head of the Russian Federal Security Service's branch in Crimea and Sevastopol, Lieutenant-General Viktor Palagin; prosecutor of the department of the Rostov region's prosecutor's office Alexander Glyuzitsky; Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin and others.

In addition, individual sanctions have been introduced against Russians – the witnesses for the prosecution in the criminal cases against the above-mentioned Ukrainian citizens, namely against the operator of the Rossiya TV Channel Viktor Denisov, cameraman for Channel One (Russia) Roman Khrolenko and the owner of the "Euro" hotel in Russia's city of Voronezh Olga Chaplygina.

All in all, there are 84 names on the Savchenko-Sentsov List.