EUobserver learned about EU plans to impose sanctions against Moskalkova

The EU considers Moskalkova, as well as Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Vyacheslav Duhin and Minister of Bashkiria Lenara Ivanova, to be involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.Moskalkova herself denied such accusations.Tatyana MoskalkovaTatyana MoskalkovaTatyana MoskalkovaTatyana MoskalkovaTatyana Moskalkova

The European Union plans to blacklist Tatyana Moskalkova, Ombudsman for Human Rights in Russia, Vyacheslav Duhin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Region, and Lenara Ivanova, Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection of Bashkiria, EUobserver writes, citing a draft document dated 14 February.

According to European officials, Moskalkova denied the existence of “camps” in Russian-controlled territory of Ukraine, where “between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including thousands of children, were interrogated, detained and forcibly expelled.” Dukhin “facilitated the illegal adoption of Ukrainian children by families from his region,” and Ivanova “was one of the key persons involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, followed by illegal adoption by Russian families,” according to Brussels.

Duhin, commenting on possible sanctions against him, told RBC that “he is already trying on the make-up of Pennywise from It.” Duhin considers it an honor to participate in the work, "as a result of which children from the DPR and LPR, left without parents, found families in Russia." According to him, over the past year, more than 130 children were taken out of the military operation zone and placed in foster families in the Moscow region, and the parents went through a “strict selection”. “It is important to note, unfortunately, that all the children who were sent to us at that time had already been in the social institutions of the DPR and LPR for quite a long time. These kids did not remember their parents and were in dire need of a family. Our task was to save them from constant shelling from the Ukrainian side,” the official stressed.

RBC turned to the press services of Moskalkova and Ivanova for comment.

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Moskalkova in November last year, in response to accusations by the Ukrainian side of the forced removal of children, said that Moscow had repeatedly asked Kyiv to provide lists in order to verify this information. In February of this year, she announced that she was helping Ukraine to reunite children with relatives. Russian Deputy Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky called the accusations against Russia about the kidnapping of children in Ukraine untenable.

In addition to the above officials, 59 people may be subject to sanctions - these are deputy ministers, deputies and senators, prosecutors, military commanders and TV presenters, the newspaper writes. Among the defendants on the list, EUobserver names the head of Rossotrudnichestvo (the agency itself is already under sanctions) Yevgeny Primakov, the deputy commander of the Southern Military District, Lieutenant General Alexei Avdeev, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel General Sergei Karakaev, and the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky. Also, two deputies of the head of Roskomnadzor and leaders of the All-Russian People's Front will also be blacklisted.

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The sanctions imply a ban on entry into the EU countries and the freezing of all assets (if any) on their territory.