Aleksey Kostrubitsky is the “Civil Defense and Emergency Situations Minister” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).”  Kostrubitsky is being designated for being responsible for or complicit in, or having engaged in, directly or indirectly, actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine; and acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the DPR.