LONDONFeb 8 – Britain on Wednesday set out a new round of sanctions against “Russian military and Kremlin elites”, including six entities supplying military equipment, such as drones, for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions also affect eight people and one entity linked to financial networks that help “maintain wealth and power among the Kremlin elites,” the government said in a statement, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the UK. .
“Ukraine has shown Putin that it will not bow down to his tyrannical invasion. He has responded by indiscriminately attacking civilian areas and critical national infrastructure across the country,” Foreign Affairs Secretary James Cleverly said in the statement.
“We cannot allow him to succeed. We must increase our support.”
The UK, which has sanctioned more than 1,300 Russian individuals and entities in the past year, has sanctioned computer services company Moscoms for acting as a “nexus for the Russian elite” by providing domains to many involved in destabilizing Ukraine. .
Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, claiming it had to protect Russian-speakers from persecution and prevent the Western alliance of the NATO use Ukraine to threaten Russia’s security.
kyiv and its Western allies, including Britain, say these are baseless pretexts for an unprovoked takeover war.
