Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer, SNP Westminster chief Ian Blackford, and former prime minister David Cameron are among the many newest UK figures who’ve been added to Russia’s sanctions record.
The overseas ministry says the 39 outstanding Britons have been banned from getting into Russia.
It mentioned it was appearing in response to UK sanctions in opposition to Russians, which have been put in place in response to the struggle in Ukraine.
The record additionally options shadow overseas secretary David Lammy, shadow communities secretary Lisa Nandy, shadow worldwide commerce secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds, Conservative former cupboard minister Liam Fox, and former NATO secretary common George Robertson.
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The Russian authorities has additionally barred various Scottish politicians from the nation in response to assist given to Ukraine following the invasion.
Holyrood finance secretary Kate Forbes, structure secretary Angus Robertson, and Ukraine minister Neil Gray have been all positioned on the record.
Scottish Green co-leader – and Scottish authorities minister – Lorna Slater and her fellow Green MSP Ross Greer have additionally been added, as has Scottish Liberal Democrat chief Alex Cole-Hamilton.
Scotland’s First Minister and SNP chief Nicola Sturgeon was equally sanctioned earlier this 12 months.
Other figures on the record embody the top of Sky News, John Ryley, BBC presenter Huw Edwards, ITV News’ political editor Robert Peston, TalkTV presenter Piers Morgan, and The Sunday Times’ political editor Caroline Wheeler.
Reacting to the information on Twitter, Mr Morgan mentioned: “It wasn’t on my immediate vacation to-do list.”
Russia says its “stop list” consists of British politicians, businessmen, and journalists who “contribute to London’s hostile course aimed at the demonisation of our country and its international isolation”.
The overseas ministry hit out on the “continued application by the UK government of the mechanism of sanctions restrictions against representatives of the socio-political circles of Russia, domestic economic operators and the media”.
It mentioned the “pernicious actions of the UK in planting Russophobia, spreading false information about our country and supporting the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime will receive an adequate and decisive response from the Russian side”.
“The choice in favour of confrontation is a conscious decision of the British political establishment, which bears all responsibility for the consequences.”
Source: information.sky.com”