18 British nationals, including professors, officials, and Russia specialists, are under sanctions from Russia because of what Moscow claims is an effort to demonize Russia and inflame the conflict in Ukraine.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Monday, “We are forced to state that Russophobically charged British representatives do not shy away trying to discredit the constitutional system and socio-political processes in our country.”
“A major contribution to London’s subversive work in the Russian direction is made by the so-called brain trusts that operate on the foundation of the largest Western and British educational institutions.”
The British government’s approach toward Ukraine, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, has caused the conflict to worsen and claim more lives.
The ministry claimed, “The British must realize that, along with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, they bear responsibility for crimes against civilians by pushing the [President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy regime to continue the bloodshed.”
The British Deputy Defence Minister James Cartlidge, the Deputy National Security Advisor Sarah MacIntosh, and the Director of Submarines Simon Asquith were all subject to personal sanctions.
Lords Dan Hannan and Michael Ashcroft were among the others targeted, along with Stuart Peach, the British prime minister’s special envoy to the Western Balkans.
Graeme Robertson of the University of North Carolina, Calder Walton of Harvard University, James Sherr of the International Centre for Defence & Security in Tallinn, Roy Allison of the University of Oxford, and historians Orlando Figes, Norman Davies, Timothy Garton Ash, Rob Johnson, and David Abulafia were among the specialists who were sanctioned.
