MOSCOW, 16 Apr. Russia, in response to the London sanctions, included key members of the British government and several politicians in the Russian stop list, according to the website of the diplomatic agency. «In connection with the unprecedented hostile actions of the British government, expressed, in particular, in the imposition of sanctions against senior Russia, a decision has been made to include key members of the British government and a number of political figures in the Russian stop list,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Among the defendants are Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Defense Minister Ben Wallace and other members of the Cabinet. It, according to the Russian department, will include politicians and parliamentarians «who contribute to whipping up anti-Russian hysteria, pushing the» collective West «to use the language of threats in dialogue with Moscow and are engaged in shameless incitement of the Kiev neo-Nazi regime.» «This step was taken as a response to London unleashing an unbridled information and political campaign aimed at isolating Russia internationally, creating conditions for containing our country and strangling the domestic economy,» the Foreign Ministry added. jpg» />11:33 Forbes: Durov asked not to be called a Russian businessmanAccording to British Foreign Minister Liz Truss, more than a thousand Russians are under sanctions. Restrictions involve freezing assets and a ban on entry into the territory of the kingdom. The restrictions were introduced to «stop Russia's actions to destabilize Ukraine, threaten and undermine sovereignty, its territorial integrity and independence.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage: they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called «the liberation of Donbass».
