The United Kingdom announced this Wednesday in coordination with the European Union (EU) an expansion of its list of those sanctioned for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to include a total of 206 individuals and announced that as of this week it prohibits exports to Russia of equipment for oil refining.
“The UK government, in coordination with the EU, is going to sanction 178 people who support illegal breakaway regions in Ukraine,” after “numerous reports last week that Russia was barbarously attacking civilians in these regions,” the British Foreign Office announced in a statement.
“Following the horrific rocket attacks on civilians in eastern Ukraine, today We punish those who support illegal separatist regions and are guilty of atrocities against the Ukrainian people,” he claimed British Foreign Secretary Liz Trussreported the AFP news agency.
Boris Johnson’s executive also announced his intention to present to parliament on Thursday a text “that will prohibit the import of steel products (iron and steel), as well as the export of quantum technologies, advanced materials and luxury items.”
These measures target the Russian authorities’ key sources of profit and seek to “thwart the military ambitions” of Moscow, the statement added.
On April 6, it was announced that as of this week the UK bans exports to Russia of oil refining equipment.
This Wednesday, London expanded individual sanctions against Russia by listing 206 individuals, and in particular it was announced that as of this week the United Kingdom prohibits exports to Russia of equipment for oil refining.
The UK Trade Resources Authority reported that it would look into the issue of reallocate tariff quotas for steel imports from Russia and Belarus to other exporting countries, in order to avoid possible shortages.
Facing British pressure, Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for developing new outlets for the fossil fuels produced by his country.
“Opportunities, options and alternative paths open up to us. As for Russian oil, gas and coal, we are going to be able to increase their consumption in the internal market and increase the delivery of energy resources to the other regions of the world that really need them. need,” he said in a speech about the Russian Arctic.
The president of the Lukoil Oil Company, Vagit Alekperov; the co-owner of the System Investment Firm, Vladimir Evtushenkov, and the co-owner of the producer of rolling stock for Transmashholding Railways, Andrei Bokarev, among others, are on the sanctioned list.
These people, adds the document, they will be subject to an asset freeze, an entry ban, as well as transport sanctions, under which their ships or planes will not be allowed to dock in UK ports, reported the Sputnik news agency.
Among those sanctioned are pro-Russian separatists but also “six oligarchs, relatives and employees and 22 more people” close to Putin.
They include Alexander Ananchenko and Sergei Kozlov, described by London as “self-proclaimed” leaders of the pro-Russian breakaway “republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk, according to the statement.
Also on the list are the names of Russian presidential adviser Andrei Fursenko, Ukrainian opposition politician Victor Medvedchuk; the owner of the investment company ESN, Grigori Beriozkin, and the wife of the Russian foreign minister, Maria Lavrova.
All of them are banned from entering the UK, and their assets in the country will be blocked.
