Britain hits Russia with new wave of sanctions

The British authorities said connected Thursday it had imposed its biggest sanctions bundle successful 18 months against Russia, targeting radical progressive successful the Ukraine war, African mercenary groups and a nervus cause onslaught connected British soil.

The overseas ministry said it had sanctioned 56 entities and individuals, aiming to wounded Russian President Vladimir Putin's warfare effort and Russia's "malign enactment globally."

Among them were 10 entities based successful China said to beryllium supplying machinery and components for the Russian military.

"Today’s measures volition proceed to propulsion backmost connected the Kremlin’s corrosive overseas policy, undermining Russia's attempts to foster instability crossed Africa and disrupting the proviso of captious instrumentality for Putin's warfare machine," British overseas curate David Lammy said.

The Russian embassy successful London did not instantly respond to a petition for a comment.

Most of the measures were aimed astatine companies based successful Russia, China, Turkey and Kazakhstan accused of aiding the Russian penetration of Ukraine with the proviso of instrumentality tools, microelectronics and components for drones.

They see firms that European quality sources judge to beryllium portion of a Russian effort to found a weapons programme successful China, according to a Reuters study successful September.

Britain besides said the latest sanctions would code Russian enactment successful Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic by targeting 3 backstage mercenary groups with links to the Kremlin, including the Kremlin-controlled Africa Corps, and 11 individuals.

Amongst the individuals sanctioned was Denis Sergeev, whom British constabulary person charged implicit the execution effort connected erstwhile Russian treble cause Sergei Skripaland his girl Yulia successful the confederate English metropolis of Salisbury successful March 2018.

Sergeev, who Britain said was acting nether the alias Sergey Fedotov, was 1 of 3 Russians said by Britain to person been GRU subject quality officers suspected of carrying retired the attack.

Last month, a nationalist enquiry into the decease of a pistillate who was accidentally poisoned by the nervus cause heard that Skripal believed Putin himself had ordered the Novichok attack.

Moscow has repeatedly rejected British accusations that it was involved.