The statement comes after the European country banned the prime minister and British officials from entering its territory.
After Russia banned Boris Johnson and other British officials from entering its territory, the prime minister tweeted that he had informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he would offer the European country “more military aid” in the coming years.
“Britain will stop at nothing to ensure Ukrainians have the resources necessary to defend their country against the ongoing Russian onslaught,” he said.
This Saturday (April 16), the State Department released a list in which it referred to officials as “British subjects” and restricted entry into Russian territory.
“In connection with the unprecedented hostile actions of the British government, which were expressed in particular in the imposition of sanctions on highranking officials of the Russian Federation, the decision was made to add key members of the British government and various political figures to the Russian stoplist .”, the ministry said in a statement.
The move comes in response to British sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine. In a statement, the Kremlin said the British government was “strangling the domestic economy” in its campaign to isolate Russia from the international market.
In the decision, the Russian government compiled the list with the names of 13 British officials. In the statement, the ministry said the “russophobic course” affected the “interests of Britain’s residents themselves”.
Here is the list:
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson;
- Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Ferguson;
- England’s Attorney General Suella Braverman;
- former British Prime Minister Theresa May;
- Justice Secretary Dominic Rennie;
- Secretary of State Elizabeth Trass;
- Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace;
- Deputy Secretary of Defense James Heappey;
- Grant from Minister for Transport Shapps;
- Home Secretary Priti Patel;
- Finance Minister Rishi Sunak;
- Minister for Entrepreneurship Kwasi Kwarteng;
- Digitization Minister Nadine Vanessa.
The Russian government has promised to expand the list in the “near future” to include other British politicians and parliamentarians who are contributing to “antiRussian sentiment”.
SANCTIONS
On February 24, at the start of the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a robust package of sanctions against Russia. The next day, Britain froze the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. More recently, Putin’s daughters have also been sanctioned by the British government.
Visit to Kyiv
Boris Johnson paid a surprise visit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (April 9). The meeting was held in the capital, Kyiv, with the aim of putting together a new package of military and economic aid for the country. According to Johnson’s office, the visit is a “demonstration of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.”