- 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
- Alexandr Kots is a special correspondent of a pro-Kremlin Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid. He is a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, where he sits on the working group on the “special military operation” (war) in Ukraine. He supported Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. He spread Russian war disinformation and propaganda about the war and the illegal referenda in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. He called for Russian attacks on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine without regard to how this would affect the civilian population of the country. Therefore, he is responsible for 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