THE PLAYERS
THE WAGNER LEADERSHIP
Dmitriy Utkin is the founder and leader of PMC Wagner. Utkin is being designated for being responsible for or complicit in, or having engaged in, directly or indirectly, actions or policies that threaten the peace, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine; and for acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, PMC Wagner.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0114
https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q45666735/
Dmitry Valerievich Utkin
DOB: June 1, 1970
POB: Asbest
Commanded Pechory based Pskov Oblast, 700th separate special forces unit, 2nd Spetznaz GRU
Worked Moran Security Group
False rumore of death in January 2016, Ozerianivka, Donetsk.