United Kingdom increases sanctions against 22 Russian officials

• The UK has sanctioned an additional 22 Russian officials for supporting Russia’s conflict with Ukraine.
• London has now sanctioned more than 1,200 people and 120 organizations.
• The new package of sanctions includes Deputy Prime Minister Denis Valentinovich Manturov.

The United Kingdom has sanctioned an additional 22 Russian officials for supporting Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, according to a statement made on Wednesday by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

According to a UK Foreign Office news statement, London has now sanctioned more than 1,200 people and 120 organizations in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The new package of sanctions includes Deputy Prime Minister Denis Valentinovich Manturov who, according to the press release, “is responsible for overseeing the Russian weapons industry and responsible for equipping mobilized troops.”

Ten governors and regional leaders have also been sanctioned, including the heads of “some of Russia’s poorest ethnic republics,” Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kalmykia, “from which a significant number of conscripts have been drawn,” said the Foreign Office.

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Additionally sanctioned were Dmitry Bezrukikh, the head of the Federal Punishment Service for the Rostov region, and Arkady Gostev, director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation.

According to the press release, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian private military organization that has been actively engaged in fighting in Ukraine, has apparently collaborated closely with Gostev and Bezrukikh.

Ella Pamfilova, chairperson of the Central Election Commission and Andrey Burov, head of the regional election commission in Rostov, have also been sanctioned. They were both responsible for organizing the “sham” referendums in the four temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine, according to the press release.

“We have sanctioned individuals who have enforced this conscription, sending thousands of Russian citizens to fight in Putin’s illegal and abhorrent war,” said Cleverly, as quoted in the press release.

“The UK will continue to use both sanctions and military aid to support Ukraine in the defense of their independence,” he added.

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