; and (B) the terrorist activity threatens the security of the United States or its nationals. (2) The activities of the Wagner Group and affiliated entities of Russian national Yevgeniy Prigozhin pose a threat to the national interests and national security of the United States and allies and partners of the United States, including with respect to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which President Biden declared, on March 2, 2022, pose[s] an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States . (3) On June 20, 2017, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated the Wagner Group and its military leader, Dmitry Utkin, pursuant to Executive Order 13660 (titled Blocking Property of Additional Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine ) 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 . (4) On September 20, 2018, the Department of State added Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his affiliated entities, including the Wagner Group, to the list of persons identified as part of, or operating for or on behalf of, the defense or intelligence sectors of the Government of the Russian Federation under section 231 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ( 22 U.S.C. 9525 ). (5) On January 20, 2023, the White House announced it will designate the Wagner Group a Transnational Criminal Organization pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701–1706 ). (6) The Wagner Group, a self-described private actor that undertakes military action and subversive operations at the behest of the Government of the Russian Federation, is a terrorist group that engages in terrorism (as defined in section 140(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1988 and 1989 ( 22 U.S.C. 2656f(d) )), which is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against