IN BRIEF: What is known about the new UK sanctions against Russia

LONDON:  The United Kingdom has expanded anti-Russian sanctions by 107 positions, the UK Foreign Office reported. TASS has assembled the mai...

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LONDON:  The United Kingdom has expanded anti-Russian sanctions by 107 positions, the UK Foreign Office reported.

TASS has assembled the main information about the new restrictions.

Individuals

The sanctions target the following individuals:

Roman Trotsenko, Founder and former majority shareholder of the Aeon Corporation,

Natalya Tyurina, General Director of Tsargrad Media LLC

Denis Popov, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief

Ivan Gaychenya, Head of Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Main Center of Special Communication,

Nikolai Buinov, Majority shareholder of Irkutsk Oil Company,

Pavel Morozov, Owner of Akron Holdings,

Igor Kim, Owner of Expobank.

Vladislav Filev, Founder of JSC Siberia Airlines

Dinara Mustafayeva and Marat Mustafayev, Heads of the Grant-Trade company.

Andrei Olkhovsky, Owner of Avtodom, which operates in the Russian transport sector.

Andrei Kuzayev, owner of ER-Telecoms,

Arsen Kanokov, Senator of the Russian Federation representing the Kabardino-Balkar Republic.

Companies

The UK imposed sanctions against JSC Avilon Automobile Group, LLC Grant-Trade, Gruppa Russkaya Energiya, Management Company Sibanthracite.

Companies and citizens of other countries

The UK has imposed restrictions on North Korean Defense Minister No Kwang Chol and a number of other high-ranking military leaders. The sanctions include Deputy Chief of the General Staff Kim Yong Bok, head of army intelligence Lieutenant General Ri Chang Ho, and a high-ranking member of the DPRK General Staff Major General Sin Kum Chol.

London accused them of undermining the territorial integrity and destabilizing Ukraine.

The UK has imposed sanctions on companies from China, India, Thailand, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, and Germany for organizing the supply of goods and services to Russia that affect the strengthening of the country's defense capability. The list includes 11 companies from China, two enterprises from Thailand and Kyrgyzstan, as well as one each from India, the UAE, Turkey, and Germany.

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