This Council Implementing Regulation amends the EU’s restrictive measures framework against cyber-attacks by adding three Russian military officers to the sanctions list. The regulation specifically targets individuals responsible for significant cyber-attacks against Estonia’s computer systems and classified information storage in 2020.The regulation modifies Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2019/796 by adding three new entries under the section ‘A. Natural persons’. The listed individuals are officers of military unit 29155 of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU): Nikolay Alexandrovich Korchagin, Vitaly Shevchenko, and Yuriy Fedorovich Denisov.The key provisions detail that these individuals were involved in cyber-attacks aimed at collecting data from multiple Estonian institutions’ systems, targeting cyber security policy information, state cyber capabilities, sensitive personal data, and other classified information. The attacks were conducted with the intention of threatening Estonia’s security and affected its allies and partners.The regulation emphasizes that these cyber-attacks constitute a significant external threat to a Member State, warranting the implementation of restrictive measures. Each entry includes detailed identifying information about the individuals, including their date of birth, nationality, gender, and their association with the GRU, along with specific reasons for their listing.
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