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DOB: 29.3.1965 Zima was appointed as the new head of the Crimean Security Service (SBU) on 3 March 2014 by ‘Prime Minister’ Aksyonov and accepted this appointment. He has given relevant information including a database to the Russian Intelligence Service (FSB). This included information on Euro-Maidan activists and human rights defenders of Crimea. He played a relevant role in preventing Ukraine's authorities from controlling the territory of Crimea. On 11 March 2014 the formation of an independent Security Service of Crimea was proclaimed by former SBU officers of Crimea. 17.3.2014 9.
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DOB: 29.9.1952
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Former Commander, Russia's Western Military District, units of which are deployed in Crimea. He was responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of the Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a referendum and incorporation into Russia. Since November 2015 Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). 17.3.2014 21.
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Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Publicly called for the annexation of Crimea. 21.3.2014 23.
Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation. Publicly called for the annexation of Crimea. 21.3.2014 24.
Speaker of the Federation Council. On 1 March 2014, publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine. 21.3.2014 25.
Speaker of the State Duma. Publicly supported the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine. Publicly supported the Russia-Crimea reunification treaty and the related federal constitutional law. 21.3.2014 27.
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Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. He was an organiser of the process in Crimea by which local Crimean communities were mobilised to stage actions undermining the Ukrainian authorities in Crimea. 21.3.2014 30.
Chair of the Crimea Electoral Commission. Responsible for administering the Crimean referendum. Responsible under the Russian system for signing referendum results. 21.3.2014 31.
Chair of Sevastopol Electoral Commission. Responsible for administering the Crimean referendum. Responsible under the Russian system for signing referendum results. 21.3.2014 32.
The de facto Commander of Russian troops deployed on the ground in Crimea (whom Russia continues to refer to officially as ‘local self-defence militias’). Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District. 21.3.2014 34.
Deputy Prime Minister. Responsible for overseeing the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation. 29.4.2014 35.
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation into the so-called ‘Crimean Federal District’, Non-permanent member of the Russian Security Council. Responsible for the implementation of the constitutional prerogatives of the Russian Head of State on the territory of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. 29.4.2014 37.
Governor of the Ukrainian annexed city of Sevastopol. 29.4.2014 38.
Member of the Russian Federation Council from the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. 29.4.2014 40.
Deputy Chairman of State Duma, United Russia. Responsible for initiating legislation to integrate the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation. 29.4.2014 42.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army. Responsible for the massive deployment of Russian troops along the border with Ukraine and lack of de-escalation of the situation. 29.4.2014 43.
Active leader of the ‘Lugansk Guard’. Took part in the seizure of the building of the Lugansk regional office of the Security Service. Close links with the ‘Army of the South-East’. 29.4.2014 44.
One of the leaders of the separatist group ‘Army of the South-East’ which occupied the building of the Security Service in the Lugansk region. Retired officer. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups. 29.4.2014 45.
Active participant and organiser of separatist actions, coordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic Initiative of Donbass for the Eurasian Union’. Until 4 September 2015‘Chairman’ of the ‘People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic’, currently ‘First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers’. 29.4.2014 49.
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia. Responsible for overseeing the political integration of the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea into the Russian Federation. 12.5.2014 50.
Commander of the Russian Airborne Troops, Colonel-General. In his senior position, holds responsibility for the deployment of Russian airborne forces in Crimea. 12.5.2014 51.
Chair of the Duma Constitutional Law Committee. Responsible for facilitating the adoption of legislation on the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation. 12.5.2014 53.
12.5.2014 54.
Former self-declared ‘People's Mayor’ of Slaviansk (until 10 June 2014). Ponomariov called on Vladimir Putin to send in Russian troops to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons. Ponomariov's men were involved in kidnappings (they captured activist Irma Krat and Simon Ostrovsky, a reporter for Vice News, both were later released, they detained military observers under the OSCE Vienna Document). Remains active in supporting separatist actions and policies. 12.5.2014 55.
One of the leaders of the self-proclaimed militia of Horlivka. He took control of the Security Service of Ukraine's Office in Donetsk region building and afterwards seized the Ministry of Internal Affairs' district station in the town of Horlivka. He has links to Ihor Strielkov under whose command he was involved in the murder of the Peoples' Deputy of the Horlivka's Municipal Council Volodymyr Rybak according to the SBU. 12.5.2014 56.
One of the leaders of armed forces of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. The aim of the forces is to ‘protect the people of the Donetsk People's Republic and territorial integrity of the republic’ according to Pushylin, one of the leaders of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. 12.5.2014 58.
Head of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May 2014 on the self-determination of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Former ‘Minister of Labour and Social Policy’. 12.5.2014 59.
DOB: 12.1.1981 Head of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May 2014 on the self-determination of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’. 12.5.2014 60.
Prosecutor of Crimea. Actively implementing Russia's annexation of Crimea. 12.5.2014 61.
POB: Sevastopol, Crimea Prosecutor of Sevastopol. Actively implementing Russia's annexation of Sevastopol. 12.5.2014 64.
DOB: 9.10.1975 Former so-called ‘de facto Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic’. Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. 12.7.2014 65.
Former so-called ‘Information and Mass Communications Minister’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Currently a member of the so-called ‘People's Council’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Responsible for the pro-separatist propaganda activities of the so-called ‘government’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. 12.7.2014 67.
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DOB: 17.5.1954
25.7.2014 82.
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25.7.2014 86.
Senior aid to Igor Strelkov/Girkin who is responsible for actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. In taking on and acting in this capacity, Zdriliuk has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. 25.7.2014 87.
Former ‘Minister of State Security’ in the separatist region of Transnistria. Former vice-prime minister of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’, responsible for security and law enforcement. In his capacity, he was responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. 25.7.2014 89.
DOB: possibly 23.7.1981 Spokesperson of the so-called ‘government’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’ who made declarations justifying, inter alia, the shooting down of a Ukrainian military airplane, the taking of hostages, fighting activities by the illegal armed groups, which have as a consequence undermined the territorial integrity, sovereignty and unity of Ukraine. 30.7.2014 93.
30.7.2014 96.
As of 7 August 2014, he replaced Alexander Borodai as the so-called ‘Prime minister’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Currently so-called ‘Head’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. In taking on and acting in this capacity, Zakharchenko has supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. 12.9.2014 97.
As of 14 August 2014, he replaced Igor Strelkov/Girkin, as the so-called ‘Defence minister’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. He has reportedly commanded a division of separatist fighters in Donetsk since April 2014 and has promised to solve the strategic task of repelling Ukraine's military aggression. Kononov has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. 12.9.2014 98.
Associated with the ‘Donbass People's Militia’. He has, inter alia, stated that they will continue their fighting in the rest of the country. Rudenko has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Member of the so-called ‘People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic’. 12.9.2014 99.
Former so-called ‘Prime Minister’ of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’. Previously active in the militia ‘Army of the Southeast’. Tsypkalov has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Remains active in supporting separatist actions or policies. 12.9.2014 101.
DOB: 1.3.1977 Former so-called ‘Internal affairs minister’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Associated with Vladimir Antyufeyev, who is responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘Government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. 12.9.2014 103.
Former so called ‘Deputy Prime Minister for Social Issues’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Associated with Vladimir Antyufeyev, who is responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘Government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Protégé of Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Head of the ‘Administration of the Council of Ministers’ of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. 12.9.2014 120.
DOB: 29.9.1982 or 23.9.1982
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DOB: 29.8.1969
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Year of birth 1961
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DOB: 10.5.1980
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DOB: 7.1.1967
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DOB: 27.1.1974
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