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On December 16, the European Union imposed sanctions against 29 missile guidance specialists identified in a joint investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat in late October 2022. The sanctioned individuals are employees at a secret unit of the Main Сomputation Center (MCC) of the Russian Armed Forces, and are directly engaged in targeting the territory of Ukraine with high-precision Russian missiles, which mostly hit civilians and civilian infrastructure.
All of them are MCC employees, and most of them work in the missile strike planning unit.
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The MCC's missile guidance specialists were divided into three clusters by their call logs
- Major General Robert Baranov – Director of the Main Computation Center of the General Staff (GVC) of the Russian Armed Forces
- Colonel Evgeny Kapshuk – Deputy Commander of the GVC of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces
- Colonel Igor Bagnyuk – Commander at the Missile Pre-Planning Unit at the GVC of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces
- Lieutenant Colonel Anton Timashinov – responsible for programming the route of all three types of guided missiles (Kalibr, R-500, Kh-101)
- Captain Elvira Obukhova
- Captain Pavel Obukhov
- Captain Vitalia Yaskelainen
- Lieutenant Artem Vedenov
- Major Ivan Popov
- Major Matvey Lyubavin
- Lieutenant Ekaterina Chugunova
- Captain Sergei Ilyin
- Captain Yuri Nikonov
- Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Tikhonov
- Captain Artem Chernov
- Captain Alexey Betekhtin
- Lieutenant Nikita Poplavsky
- Major Andrey Ivanyutin
- Lieutenant Igor Groza
- Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Tarasov
- Captain Georgy Starostin
- Major Roman Kurochkin
- Lieutenant Vladimir Petrov
- Captain Anton Chulikov
- Senior Lieutenant Olga Pismenskaya
- Senior Lieutenant Pavel Vasilyev
- Lieutenant Alexei Volkov
- Captain Anton Shatun
- Captain Stanislav Minkov.
The Insider’s sources indicate that the US will be imposing sanctions against the aforementioned guidance specialists in the near future.