The leader of the Wagner paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday considered European sanctions against him for his involvement in fighting in Ukraine “reasonable”, while European justice lifted sanctions against his mother, AFP reported.

“As for the appeal of the sanctions against me and the sanctions against Wagner, I am not going to appeal them and I believe that at the moment they have been introduced very wisely,” Yevhen Prigozhin is quoted as saying by the company’s press service. , Concord.

61-year-old Prigozhin, present in the Ukrainian Donbass with his men who took part in the bloody battle near Bakhmut, answered on Wednesday a question about the lifting of sanctions against his mother by European justice.

Like her son, Violeta Prigozhina faces an EU entry ban and asset freeze from February 2022, with the EU Council declaring that, at 83, she is “the owner of Concord Management and Consulting LLC, which belongs to the Concord Group” . founded by his son.

But, according to the EU Court, “it follows from the case file that Ms. Prigozhina is no longer the owner of Concord Management and Consulting since 2017.” Therefore, the family connection “cannot be sufficient” to justify his blacklisting.

The cancellation of the measures taken against Violeta Prigozhina is the first significant decision regarding the sanctions taken in this context of the conflict in Ukraine.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had long been in the shadows doing the Kremlin’s dirty work, became prominent in Russian strategy in Ukraine – his private army was stationed at the front lines – to the point of igniting tensions with the military hierarchy.