- 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
- Viktor Sineok is a correspondent and columnist for Multimedia Information Center (MIC) Izvestia, a project of the National Media Group (NMG) holding providing news services for the REN TV Channel, Channel Five and the Izvestia newspaper. Viktor Sineok has been actively spreading propaganda and disinformation related to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine both before the full-fledged invasion of 24 Feb 2022 and after. He has been promoting Kremlin policies and actions, praising the Russian leadership, manipulating information about atrocities committed by the Russian army and applauding the annexations of Ukrainian regions. He has repeatedly prepared reports and articles trying to persuade audiences that information about Russian atrocities committed in places like Bucha are staged and untrue. He has been contributing to inciting hatred towards Ukrainians by repeating Russian Government disinformation about genocide in Donbas and denying Ukrainian independence. In his reports, he has been advancing most of the main Russian disinformation narratives about Ukraine, including that on US run biolabs in the country. Therefore, Viktor Sineok is supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026