{ "id": "94f37d75-27a9-4c5a-a5b1-0060e973e9bc", "created_at": "2026-04-06T15:52:23.504752Z", "updated_at": "2026-04-10T03:21:03.436691Z", "deleted_at": null, "sha1_hash": "6ac0c8a27211142834290b9162c5db0aef27e16a", "title": "Russian hybrid threats: EU lists further 21 individuals and 6 entities and introduces sectoral measures in response to destabilising activities against the EU, its member states and international partners", "llm_title": "", "authors": "", "file_creation_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "file_modification_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "file_size": 60128, "plain_text": "Russian hybrid threats: EU lists further 21 individuals and 6\r\nentities and introduces sectoral measures in response to\r\ndestabilising activities against the EU, its member states and\r\ninternational partners\r\nArchived: 2026-04-06 15:37:26 UTC\r\nThe Council today decided to impose additional restrictive measures against 21 individuals and 6 entities\r\nresponsible for Russia’s destabilising actions abroad.\r\nThe Council has also broadened the scope to allow the EU to target tangible assets linked to Russia’s\r\ndestabilising activities, such as vessels, aircraft, real estate, and physical elements of digital and communication\r\nnetworks, as well as transactions of credit institutions, financial institutions and entities providing crypto-assets\r\nservices that directly or indirectly facilitate Russia’s destabilising activities.\r\nFurthermore, in light of the systematic, international Russian campaign of media manipulation and distortion of\r\nfacts aimed at destabilising neighbouring countries and the EU, the Council will now have the possibility to\r\nsuspend the broadcasting licences of Russian media outlets under the control of the Russian leadership, and to\r\nprohibit them from broadcasting their content in the EU.\r\nIn line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the measures agreed today will not prevent the targeted media\r\noutlets and their staff from carrying out activities in the EU other than broadcasting, e.g. research and interviews.\r\nToday’s listings include Viktor Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian politician and businessman who, through his\r\nassociates Artem Marchevskyi and Oleg Voloshin also listed today, controlled Ukrainian media outlets and used\r\nthem to disseminate pro-Russian propaganda in Ukraine and beyond. Through secret financing of the “Voice of\r\nEurope” media channel - also listed today - and his political platform “Another Ukraine”, Medvedchuk has\r\npromoted policies and actions intended to erode the legitimacy and credibility of the government of Ukraine, in\r\ndirect support of the foreign policy interests of the Russian Federation and disseminating pro-Russian propaganda.\r\nFurthermore, the Council targeted individuals involved in activities aimed at undermining the democratic political\r\nprocess in Estonia (Alik Khuchbarov and Ilya Bocharov, both operatives of Russia’s military intelligence agency\r\n- GRU) and Germany, such as the German blogger Thomas Röper, the Russian blogger Alina Lipp, the Turkish\r\nmedia company AFA Medya and its founder Hüseyin Doğru. Private citizens involved in destabilising activities\r\nagainst the EU and partner states were also listed such as Elena Kolbasnikova, Yulia Prokhorova, Rostislav\r\nTeslyuk, Andrei Kharkovsky.\r\nToday’s listings notably include two fishing companies, Norebo JSC and Murman Sea Food, which are part of a\r\nRussia-state sponsored surveillance campaign that have conducted espionage missions and sabotage on critical\r\ninfrastructure, including undersea cables.\r\nhttps://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entities-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners/\r\nPage 1 of 3\n\nFurthermore, the Council has listed the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Main Radio Frequency Center” General\r\nRadio Frequency Center (GRFC) and its acting director Ruslan Nesterenko, that are responsible for actions of\r\nelectronic warfare including “jamming” and “spoofing” primarily affecting the GPS signal in Baltic states and\r\ndisrupting civil aviation. \r\nIn addition, the Council targeted Viktor Lukovenko, the head of listed entity African Initiative, a news agency\r\ninvolved in spreading Russian propaganda and disinformation on the African continent, Justin Blaise Tagouh,\r\nCEO of the press group International Africa Media and Mikhaïl Prudnikov have been spreading Russian\r\nnarrative and anti-western narrative in African countries. Sylvain Afoua, founder of the “Black African Defense\r\nLeague”, a structure dissolved in 2021 by the French authorities for spreading an ideology calling for hatred,\r\ndiscrimination and violence, was also listed.\r\nAmong those listed are also Stark Industries, a web hosting service, its CEO Iurie Neculiti and owner Ivan\r\nNeculiti. They have been acting as enablers of various Russian state-sponsored and affiliated actors to conduct\r\ndestabilising activities including, information manipulation interference and cyber-attacks against the Union and\r\nthird countries.\r\nThose designated today will be subject to an asset freeze and EU citizens and companies will be forbidden from\r\nmaking funds available to them. In addition, natural persons will also be subject to a travel ban, which will\r\nprevent them from entering or transiting through EU territories.\r\nIn its conclusions of 27 June 2024 and 19 December 2024, the European Council strongly condemned all types of\r\nhybrid activities, which are on the rise and target the EU, its member states and partners.\r\nThe EU and its member states will continue to draw on the full range of tools available to protect, prevent, deter\r\nfrom and respond to such malicious behaviour. A tailored and sustained approach, proportionate to the ongoing\r\nthreat is necessary.\r\nThe relevant legal acts, including the names of the listed individuals and entities, have been published in the\r\nOfficial Journal of the EU.\r\nBackground\r\nThe framework for restrictive measures in response to Russia’s destabilising actions was set up on 8 October 2024\r\nto target those engaged in actions and policies by the government of the Russian Federation, which undermine\r\nthe fundamental values of the EU and its member states, their security, stability, independence and integrity.\r\nThe sanctions regime can also target those responsible for hybrid activities against international organisations\r\nand third countries.\r\nOn 16 December 2024, the Council has imposed restrictive measures against 16 individuals and 3 entities\r\nresponsible for Russia’s destabilising actions against the EU and third states. It marked the first time such\r\nmeasures were introduced under the new framework targeting hybrid activities\r\nIn its conclusions of 19 December 2024, the European Council condemned Russia’s hybrid campaign, including\r\nsabotage, disruption of critical infrastructure, cyber-attacks, information manipulation and interference, and\r\nattempts to undermine democracy, including in the electoral process, against the European Union and its member\r\nhttps://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entities-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners/\r\nPage 2 of 3\n\nstates. The Council declared that it would continue to strengthen their resilience and make full use of all means\r\navailable to prevent, deter and respond to Russia’s hybrid activities.\r\nCouncil Decision (CFSP) 2025/966 of 20 May 2025 amending Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 concerning\r\nrestrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities (including a list of the sanctioned\r\nindividuals and entities)\r\nCouncil Decision (CFSP) 2025/963 of 20 May 2025 amending Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 concerning\r\nrestrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities (broadened scope)\r\nCouncil Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 of 8 October 2024 concerning restrictive measures in view of\r\nRussia’s destabilising activities (consolidated text dated 16 December 2024)\r\nStatement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Russia’s continued hybrid activity against the\r\nEU and its member states (8 October 2024)\r\nEuropean Council conclusions, 19 December 2024\r\nTimeline – EU sanctions against Russia (background information)\r\nRussia’s war on Ukraine (background information)\r\nVisit the meeting page\r\nSource: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entiti\r\nes-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners/\r\nhttps://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entities-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners/\r\nPage 3 of 3", "extraction_quality": 1, "language": "EN", "sources": [ "ETDA" ], "references": [ "https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entities-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners/" ], "report_names": [ "russian-hybrid-threats-eu-lists-further-21-individuals-and-6-entities-and-introduces-sectoral-measures-in-response-to-destabilising-activities-against-the-eu-its-member-states-and-international-partners" ], "threat_actors": [], "ts_created_at": 1775490743, "ts_updated_at": 1775791263, "ts_creation_date": 0, "ts_modification_date": 0, "files": { "pdf": "https://archive.orkl.eu/6ac0c8a27211142834290b9162c5db0aef27e16a.pdf", "text": "https://archive.orkl.eu/6ac0c8a27211142834290b9162c5db0aef27e16a.txt", "img": "https://archive.orkl.eu/6ac0c8a27211142834290b9162c5db0aef27e16a.jpg" } }