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The Council of the European Union expanded the sanctions list, adding to it 10 individuals and 17 organizations involved in the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and to temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. It also concerns structures and persons that the EU considers responsible for forced assimilation, ideological conditioning, and militarized upbringing of Ukrainian children. This was reported on the official website of the Council of the EU.
- Today the Council of the EU adopted a decision to impose restrictive measures on a further 10 persons and 17 organizations responsible for actions that undermine or pose a threat to the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine, the document reads.
The decision concerns persons and organizations responsible for the systematic illegal deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and within the temporarily occupied territories, as well as for their forced assimilation, including ideological conditioning and militarized upbringing.
Among the organizations added to the sanctions list today are the Moscow City Tourism Committee, as well as two Russian companies operating in the field of children’s recreation, tourism and entertainment that participate in organizing events dedicated to Russian history, commemorating dates related to wars, and in military-patriotic education.
Also added to the list are children’s camps and sports centers in the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine because of their role in culturally reorienting children, propagandistic upbringing, and military-patriotic events aimed at integrating children into the system of Russian identity.
The sanctions package also provides for adding the International Children’s Camp "Songdowon" — a state institution in the DPRK — to the list. The camp takes part in organized programs that involve moving Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine under coordination with Russia and with the aim of spreading pro-Russian narratives.
The sanctions list also includes the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, for facilitating the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to camps located in his region. In addition, sanctions have been applied to the minister and deputy ministers of education and science of certain occupied territories, the minister of sport and tourism of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as heads of children’s camps and schools for their contribution to the ideological conditioning of children.
- For the persons and organizations included on the sanctions list, asset freezes apply, and EU citizens and companies are prohibited from providing them with funds, financial assets, or economic resources. For natural persons, an entry ban is additionally applied, which prohibits them from entering the territory of the EU or transiting through it, the document states.
Since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, it is estimated that the Russian Federation has deported and forcibly transferred more than 20 500 Ukrainian children.
In December 2025, the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security SPRAVDI reported that re-education camps for Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories were discovered in the DPRK.
In June 2025, Member of Parliament and member of the Holos faction Yaroslav Zhelezniak reported that separate criminal liability for the deportation of children and for unjustified prevention of their return, including by representatives of Russia and Belarus, would be introduced in Ukraine.
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