Poisoning of Alexey Navalny: the United Kingdom and the United States sanction senior Russian officials – franceinfo

They raise their voice. The United Kingdom and the United States announced Friday, August 20, new sanctions against senior Russian security officials for their alleged role in the poisoning of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, which occurred exactly one year on a plane in Siberia.

The British Foreign Office has targeted seven people, identified as members of the Russian Security Services (FSB). These individuals are hit by travel bans and the freezing of their assets, measures “taken alongside our American allies”, he said in a statement.

The US Treasury said in a separate statement that nine senior officials and two scientific laboratories were targeted in total by this third wave of US sanctions. Russian diplomacy denounced these sanctions in the evening “illegitimate unilateral”.

Poisoned by a nerve agent from the Novichok group, a substance designed by Soviet specialists for military purposes, Alexei Navalny had been in a coma for two days in a Siberian hospital before being transferred to Berlin for treatment. The 45-year-old opponent is imprisoned in Russia, where he returned in January 2021.