UK and US impose sanctions on top Russian officials
About ten senior officials and scientific laboratories are targeted by Travel ban and asset freeze.
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They raise their voice. The United Kingdom and the United States announced, Friday, August 20, new sanctions against senior Russian security officials for their alleged role in the poisoning of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, which occurred exactly for a year on a plane in Siberia.
The British Foreign Office targeted seven people, identified as members of the Russian Security Service (FSB). These individuals are subject to travel bans, asset freezes, and measures “Taken on the side of our American allies”He said in a statement.
The US Treasury said in a separate statement that nine senior officials and two science labs were targeted by the third wave of US sanctions. This evening, Russian diplomacy condemned these sanctions “One-sided illegal.”
Poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok group, a substance designed by Soviet specialists for military purposes, Alexei Navalny was in a coma for two days in a Siberian hospital before being transferred to Berlin for treatment. The 45-year-old opponent was imprisoned in Russia, where he returned in January 2021.
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