Russia today banned entry into the country UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and twelve other senior officials from that country for “unprecedented hostile actions” taken against Moscow by the British government.
“This step has been taken as a response to the unrestrained 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 Russian Foreign Ministry said when announcing the measure.
The statement from the Russian diplomacy highlights that the british government “purposely aggravates the situation around Ukraine by dumping deadly weapons on the kyiv regime and coordinating similar efforts on the part of 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 the bilateral ties in virtually all areasdamages the well-being and interests of the inhabitants of Great Britain itself, ”stressed Foreign Affairs.
According to Moscow, any sanctioning attacks “will inevitably turn against their promoters and will be resolutely rejected.”
In addition to Johnson, the ban affects nine members of his Cabinet, Vice 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; the Attorney General for England and Wales, Suella Braverman, and the former Prime Minister and Conservative MP Theresa May.
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