The European Union announced on July 16 its latest round of sanctions on Russia related to its invasion of Ukraine, naming six entities and nine individuals.
The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network was one of the entities targeted for “effectively replacing established Ukrainian broadcasting systems in occupied regions, with a network that transmits content approved by the Russian Government with the aim of suppressing dissent, aligning the local population with Russian policies and delegitimizing Ukraine’s governance in the occupied territories,” according to the Council of the EU.
Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network General Director Andrey Yuryevich Romanchenko and Department for Coordination of Communications Infrastructure Development in New Territories Director Vladimir Naidenov were also sanctioned by the EU.
Also targeted by the EU were the 841st Separate Electronic Warfare Center and two of its highest-ranking members overseeing operations in Russia’s Kaliningrad region.
They have been responsible for global navigation satellite system “disruptions in several European countries [that] have been linked to electronic warfare activities from Kaliningrad, including jamming and spoofing of GNSS signals, primarily affecting the Baltic States, and disrupting civil aviation,” according to the Council of the EU.
The EU also sanctioned the BRICS Journalists Association and the Foundation to Battle Injustice for having “been involved in numerous [Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference] operations targeting France and Ukraine, including a campaign accusing French soldiers of having kidnapped children from Niger after the military coup d’état in 2023,” according to the council.
Also targeted by the EU was the Center for Geopolitical Expertise, which “is responsible for orchestrating disinformation campaigns targeting Ukrainian interests, discrediting Western political figures, and influencing electoral processes in Western countries,” the council stated.
The EU also sanctioned a GRU officer, numerous propagandists, and Yevgeny Shevchenko and his company, Tigerweb, which “disseminated pro-Russian content targeting several Western countries, including France,” according to the EU.
The EU recently put restrictive measures on pro-Russia social media influencer Nathalie Yamb, “who has adopted Moscow’s language targeting the West and France in particular with a view to ousting them from the African continent,” according to the council.
She “has specific ties with AFRIC, an organization linked to Russian private military companies, and is responsible for supporting the Russian Federation by the use of information manipulation and interference,” the council said.
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