The United States has added Alfa Bank’s co-owners to the sanctions list.
Thus, Pyotr Aven, Mikhail Fridman, German Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev have fallen under the restrictions.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the UK for expanding the sanctions list against Russian citizens and businesses for their involvement in the war in Ukraine.
“Today it became known that the UK has expanded the sanctions list against Russia, adding dozens of people and organizations. This is the right trend. I am grateful to the UK for its unwavering firmness in sanctions issues. This is an example that should be inherited by everyone else in the Western community,” he said in a video statement.
The British authorities, in response to Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, on Tuesday distributed an updated sanctions list with technical changes in relation to 195 Russian individuals and legal entities included in it, there are no new defendants on the list.
According to the document, changes have been made, in particular, to the data of Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov and his deputies, who fell under sanctions in March, as well as to sanctioned members of the Federation Council and the State Duma.
Also, technical changes have been made to the data of the Deputy Ministers of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin, Alexei Krivoruchko, Yuri Sadovenko, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Timur Ivanov. The data of a number of other Russian military personnel has also been updated.
