They raise their voice. The United Kingdom and the United States announced new sanctions on Friday 20 August against top Russian security officials for their alleged role in the poisoning of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, which occurred on a plane in Siberia for exactly one year.
The British Foreign Office targeted seven people identified as members of the Russian Security Service (FSB). These individuals are subject to travel bans, asset freezes, and measures “Taken on the side of our American allies”He said so in a statement.
The US Treasury said in a separate statement that this third wave of US sanctions targeted nine senior officials and two science laboratories. Tonight, Russian diplomacy condemned these sanctions “Illegal unilateral.”
Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok group, a substance designed for military purposes by Soviet specialists, and spent two days in a coma in a Siberian hospital before being transferred to Berlin for treatment. The 45-year-old opponent was imprisoned in Russia, where he returned in January 2021.
