Sanctions against Russia
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Members of the "Salvation Committee for Peace and Order", an organisation
supporting the Russian Army's occupation of the Kherson Oblast, were
sanctioned at the end of July.
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The UK also designated Vitaly Khotsenko and
Vladislav Kuznetsov, the Russian-imposed Prime Minister and First Deputy
Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
respectively. They have been accused of implementing Russian policies across
the region and for using "sham referendums to falsely legitimise their
occupation".
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Twenty-nine Russian Regional Governors have also been
sanctioned for allegedly transferring money to the DPR and LPR, at the
direction of the Kremlin.
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At the end of November further sanctions were introduced against 22
individuals who have facilitated and enforced Russia's partial mobilisation of
up to 300,000 Russian citizens to fight in Ukraine. The partial mobilisation
was announced in September 2022. Among those sanctioned was the Russian
Deputy Prime Minister, Denis Manturov and the governors of 10 regional
provinces including Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kalmykia which are among
Russia's poorest ethnic republics and from which a significant number of
individuals have been conscripted.
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The Director of Russia's federal prison service, Arkady Gostev, and the Head
of the federal prison service in the Rostov region, Dmitry Bezrukikh, have also
been sanctioned for their role in actively recruiting prisoners, including
murderers and sex offenders, into the Wagner Group in order to fight in
Ukraine in exchange for a Presidential pardon.
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Previously in July, and in coordination with the EU, the Government had also
sanctioned one company and several individuals for recruiting Syrian
mercenaries to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.
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Response to Russia's annexation of occupied Ukrainian
territory
In response to the "sham" accession referendums and the Kremlin's
subsequent annexation of four occupied regions of Ukraine: Donetsk,
Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, at the end of September 2022,
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the UK
and its allies have imposed further collective sanctions targeting
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 16 June 2022 and HM Treasury,
Financial Sanctions Notice, 16 June 2022
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 26 July 2022 and HM Treasury,
Financial Sanctions Notice, 26 July 2022
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 26 July 2022 and HM Treasury,
Financial Sanctions Notice, 26 July 2022
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 30 November 2022 and HM
Treasury, Financial Sanctions Notice (PDF), 30 November 2022
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 30 November 2022 and HM
Treasury, Financial Sanctions Notice (PDF), 30 November 2022
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Press release, 26 July 2022 and HM Treasury,
Financial Sanctions Notice, 26 July 2022
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See House of Commons Library, Implications of the Russian-Backed referendums in Ukraine
