The United States Department of State released a statement this Thursday. new sanctions package against eleven individuals and two organizations in retaliation Illegal deportation of Ukrainian minors to Russia and Chechen lands.
“Children are the most innocent victims of war: we have not forgotten Ukraine’s minors. These sanctions underscore our determination to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and promote accountability to Russian individuals and organizations and the authorities involved in these atrocities,” the State Department said in a statement.
In particular, Washington has ‘blacklisted’ three people directly responsible for the deportations, holding the position of Commissioner for the Rights of the Child: Galina Anatolevna Piatij (Belgorod), Irina Anatolievna Ageeva (Kaluga) and Irina Alexandrovna. Cherkasova (Rostov).
Also among those who were sanctioned are Chechnya Human Rights Commissioner Mansur Mussaevich Soltaev and Muslim Magomedovich Juchiev, the former leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya. Both were involved in conspiracy to facilitate the transfer of minors.
Same way, Institutions are sanctionedLike the Artek Federal State Budgetary Educational Institute, a summer camp that accepts Ukrainian children and is forced to follow their “re-education programmes”. Its director, Konstantin Albertovich Fedorenko, was also appointed.
The US has imposed sanctions on six more individuals and organizations collaborating with this issue. plan Moscow. This includes battalion commander Zamid Aliyevich Chalaev, who participated and assisted in the siege of the Azovstal steelworks. to move minors Ukrainians go to the fields Chechnya.
Other names appearing are the Minister of Education and Science, Olena Oleksandrivna Shapurova.Occupied Zaporozhian region, and Vladimir Vladislavovich Kovalenko, member of the board of the National Movement of Young Army Students responsible for militarization, propaganda and militarization. ‘Russize’ schoolchildren in areas occupied by Moscow.
Finally, Washington included Vladimir Dmitrievich Nechaev, director of Sevastopol State University in Crimea. It also identified the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, which oversees the “re-education of Ukrainian children in Chechnya”, and Aymani Nesievna Kadyrov, mother of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, one of its board members.