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EU lists 27 persons and entities over deportation of Ukrainian children
Ten persons and 17 entities linked to deportation, re-education and militarised schooling of Ukrainian children join the Ukraine sanctions list with effect from 28 September 2026.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 28 September 2026
The Council added 10 persons and 17 entities to the Ukraine sanctions list on 28 September 2026Europa
Europa, acting through two parallel instruments: Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2185, which amends the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP
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Europa. Both instruments carry the same list and state the same reason
Europa: Russia's continued war of aggression against Ukraine, and in particular the systematic unlawful deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and within temporarily occupied territories, together with forced adoption and re-education.
The 10 listed persons hold varied roles: a regional president, occupation-administration education ministers, a school director, a children's-rights commissioner, a sports minister, a camp director, a city-administration deputy head and a youth-movement branch head. The Council's stated grounds differ per person: Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of TatarstanEuropa, is cited for facilitating the deportation of Ukrainian children to camps in Tatarstan, including the "Miras" camp
Europa; Aleksandr Kalyagin, education minister of the Zaporizhzhia region under Russian occupation administration
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Europa; Oleg Trofimov, acting education minister of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic"
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Europa; Irina Kravchenko, children's-rights commissioner in the occupied Kherson region
Europa; Ali Chomaev, founder and director of the "Adel" children's camp in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
Europa; Maksim Shvets, sports and tourism minister of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic"; Renard Kutkovsky, deputy head of the Yalta city administration overseeing education, culture and youth policy
Europa; Anna Molchanova, head of the Sevastopol branch of the "Movement of the First"
Europa; Svetlana Bespalova, deputy education minister of the so-called "Republic of Crimea"
Europa; and Oleg Sladkevich, director of School No 42 in Horlivka
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The 17 listed entities are mostly camps, recreation centres and youth-programme operators that the Council describes as receiving Ukrainian children from occupied territories under recreation, rehabilitation or cultural-exchange programmes and exposing them to patriotic, ideological or military-oriented contentEuropa. Two entries play different roles: the Moscow City Tourism Committee (Mostourism), a municipal tourism authority
Europa cited for bringing children from occupied territories to Moscow through its "City of Discoveries" programme
Europa, and the Centre for the Study of the Youth Environment and Monitoring of Networks (CISM)
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Europa cited for mass surveillance of Ukrainian children and youth
Europa. The camp entries span the Songdowon International Children's Camp in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; the All-Russian Children's Centre "Ocean" in Vladivostok; the Preobrazhensky Defence and Sports Centre in Moscow; the "Romashka", "Sputnik", "Mir", "Signal", "Kotlostroitel", "Vita", "Sunny Beach", "Raduga", "Brigantine" and "Art-Quest" camps and complexes; LLC "Otdykh-71", listed for its "New Wave" recreation centre; and LLC "Leto", listed as the operator of the "Golden Spit" children's recreation facility.
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Each entry carries 28 September 2026 as its date of listing.Europa Both acts state that they enter into force on the date of their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Europa The implementing regulation is binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
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Legal basis: Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2185 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2184 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.Europa
Screen customer, counterparty and employee names against the updated Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP and Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014, and freeze any funds and economic resources belonging to the 27 newly listed persons and entities without delay.
Sources
- COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2026/2185 of 28 September 2026 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
- COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/2184 of 28 September 2026 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine