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Moscow, Apr 16 (EFE) .- Russia today prohibited the entry into the country of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and twelve other senior officials of that country for “unprecedented hostile actions” taken once morest Moscow by the British Government .
“This step has been taken as a response to the unbridled political-information campaign unleashed by London, which aims at the international isolation of Russia, at the creation of conditions to contain our country and strangle the national economy,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Russian Foreign Ministry announcing the measure.
The statement from Russian diplomacy highlights that the British government “purposely aggravates the situation around Ukraine by cramming lethal weapons into the kyiv regime and coordinating similar efforts on the part of NATO.”
“The Russophobic policy of the British authorities, who have set themselves the fundamental task of promoting a negative attitude towards our country and freezing bilateral ties in practically all areas, harms the well-being and interests of the inhabitants of Great Britain itself,” foreigners stressed.
According to Moscow, any punitive attacks “will inevitably be turned once morest their promoters and resolutely rejected.”
In addition to Jhonson, the ban affects nine members of his Cabinet, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, the Foreign Ministers, Elizabetsh Truss; Defense, Ben Wallace; Transport; Grant Shapps; Inside; Pritti Patel; Economy; Rishi Sunak; Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, and Culture, Nadine Dorries, as well as the Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey.
The list of those sanctioned is completed by the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon; the Attorney General for England and Wales, Suella Braverman, and the former Prime Minister and Conservative MP Theresa May.
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