UKSL Sanctions designation

Oplot Battalion

Entity · designated 31 December 2020

Designation identifiers

UKSL unique ID
RUS0187
OFSI group ID
13223
Designation type
Entity
Date designated
31 December 2020
Last updated
9 April 2025

Regimes

  • The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Designation sources

  • UK

Sanctions imposed

  • Asset freeze
  • Trust Services Sanctions
  • Director Disqualification Sanction

Official reasons

  • Armed separatist group which has taken part in combat activity and has actively supported actions which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine. These actions include occupation of City Hall in Donetsk; an assault assault on the army positions at Krasnohorivka, which took the lives of three Ukrainian soldiers; repulsion of Kiev troops in Donetsk and being reportedly part of the so-called '1st Army Corps' of the 'Donetsk People's Republic'. The trust services sanctions were imposed on 21/03/2023.

Other information

  • Name of Director Aleksandr Zakharchenko (now deceased) and Mikhail Verin (nom de guerre ‘The Fifth’) The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.
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