- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Dmitriy Shevchenko is the Director of the “Warrior” (“Voin”) Centre and a former Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic. The “Warrior” centre is a state-led youth organisation established in the Russian Federation to promote patriotic and military education among young people. Under his leadership, a branch of the centre was opened in April 2025 in Luhansk, where it provides large-scale military-patriotic training to children and young people, including firearms handling and drone operation. The centre operates in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Education and implements additional youth programmes such as “Time of Young Heroes.”. Dmitriy Shevchenko supervises and promotes programmes aimed at the ideological and paramilitary training of minors. More than 5 000 schoolchildren and students have taken part in these activities, which combine physical and military training with pro-Russian patriotic messaging. Therefore, Dmitriy Shevchenko is supporting and implementing actions and policies contributing to the indoctrination and militarised education of Ukrainian minors.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026