State Dept. Sanctions Russians for Deporting, Re-Educating Ukrainian Children

The State Department this week sanctioned 11 people and two entities for their involvement in forcibly transferring and deporting Ukrainian children from Russia-occupied territories to Russia.

The designations target several senior Russian government officials for their role in transferring children and others, including Galina Anatolevna Pyatykh, Irina Anatolyevna Ageeva, Irina Aleksandrovna Cherkasova, Mansur Mussaevich Soltaev and Muslim Magomedovich Khuchiev. The agency also sanctioned others involved in the “re-education” of Ukrainian children, including Zamid Alievich Chalaev, Olena Oleksandrivna Shapurova, the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, Aymani Nesievna Kadyrova, Vladimir Vladislavovich Kovalenko and Vladimir Dmitrievich Nechaev.

The State Department also designated the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institute International Children Center Artek, a Russian government-owned re-education camp in Russian controlled territory in Crimea. Konstantin Albertovich Fedorenko is the director of Artek.