- 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
- Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev is the former Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation and former Head of the National Defence Control Center of the Russian Federation. Mizintsev is nicknamed “the Butcher of Mariupol” and identified as the commander overseeing the siege of Mariupol, where he drew on tactics previously used in the siege of Aleppo, Syria, in directing Russian forces’ bombardment of Mariupol. Mizintsev is accused in particular of orchestrating the bombardments of the city of Mariupol, killing thousands of civilians, including the shelling of a Mariupol maternity hospital and a theatre, killing hundreds of children. Mikhail Mizintsev is therefore a natural person responsible for, supporting or implementing actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, or stability or security in Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026