Russia banned British Prime Minister Boris Jhonson and twelve other senior officials from that country from entering the country on Saturday for “unprecedented hostile actions” taken against Moscow by the British government.
“This step has been taken as a response to the unbridled political-information campaign unleashed by London, which aims at the international isolation of Russia, at the creation of conditions to contain our country and strangle the national economy,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Russian Foreign Ministry announcing the measure.
The statement from the Russian diplomacy highlights that the British government “purposely aggravates the situation around Ukraine by supplying the Kyiv regime with lethal weapons and coordinating similar efforts by NATO.”
“The Russophobic policy of the British authorities, who have set themselves the fundamental task of promoting a negative attitude towards our country and freezing bilateral ties in practically all areas, harms the well-being and interests of the inhabitants of Great Britain itself,” foreigners stressed.
According to Moscow, any sanctioning attacks “will inevitably turn against their promoters and will be resolutely rejected.”
In addition to Jhonson, the ban affects nine members of his Cabinet, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, the Foreign Ministers, Elizabetsh Truss; Defense, Ben Wallace; Transport; Grant Shapps; Inside; Pritti Patel; Economy; Rishi Sunak; Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, and Culture, Nadine Dorries, as well as the Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey.
The list of those sanctioned is completed by the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon; Attorney General for England and Wales Suella Braverman and former Prime Minister and Conservative MP Theresa May.
