Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior British politicians have been banned from entering Russia in response to what the Russian government said was the United Kingdom’s “unprecedented hostile actions” over the war in Ukraine.
“This step was taken as a response to London’s unbridled information and political campaign aimed at isolating Russia internationally, creating conditions for restricting our country and strangling the domestic economy,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Saturday.Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the British leadership was “deliberately aggravating the situation surrounding Ukraine, pumping the Kyiv regime with lethal weapons and coordinating similar efforts on the behalf of NATO.
In addition to the British leader, others on Russia’s blacklist of British officials include Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon. Russia said more names would be added soon. Britain has sent military assistance and financial aid to Ukraine and has imposed sanctions on Russian companies, oligarchs and hundreds of Russian lawmakers. Britain’s Ministry of Defense also tweets daily bulletins on its latest intelligence assessments of the war in Ukraine.to Ukraine, where he toured Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and pledged to send more military equipment.
Last month, Moscow said it was barring President Biden and several senior Democratic officials from entering Russia — a move“None of us are planning tourist trips to Russia and none of us have bank accounts we won’t be able to access, so we will forge ahead,” she said.
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