Great Britain imposed sanctions against Konashenkov, Chupriyan and Kalashnikov

Under the personal sanctions of the UK also fell the HEAD of the developer of hypersonic missiles "Zircon" Obnosov, the first deputy head of the FSB Korolev and a number of high-ranking military officers.The Russian Foreign Ministry promised a tough response to London

The UK has added 26 more Russian citizens and companies to the sanctions list, follows from a document published on the website of the British government.

Restrictions included:

Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov; and about. Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan; First Deputy DIRECTOR of the FSB Sergei Korolev; Boris Obnosov, head of the Tactical Missiles Corporation (developer of the Zircon hypersonic missiles); Alexei Pimanov, head of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding; military analyst, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko and others.

The United States imposed sanctions against the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank and the head of the "Discovery" Politics

In addition, sanctions have been imposed against Commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Colonel General Nikolai Bogdanovsky, Commander of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Major General Valery Flustikov, Chief of the Main Staff of the Navy - First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Andrei Volozhinsky.

Among the organizations under restrictions were the All-Russian Research Institute of Automation named after N.L. Dukhov, the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMASH), the RTI Systems concern, the Progress rocket and space center, Promtekh-Dubna JSC, the Arzamas machine-building plant, as well as the concern "Kalashnikov".

The sanctions include freezing assets. Individuals on the list are also banned from entering the UK.

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Since the end of February, the UK, like the European Union and the United States, has tightened sanctions against Russia several times. The top Russian leadership, President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as a number of Russian businessmen, heads of companies and organizations, fell under the restrictions . The sanctions also affected the financial, industrial and other sectors of the economy.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called these restrictions illegal. Speaking about the sanctions against the President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the representative of the diplomatic department Maria Zakharova stressed that both do not have accounts in the UK or any other foreign country. In general, she promised London "reciprocal proportionate tough measures." “Their result will undoubtedly be the undermining of British interests in Russia,” Zakharova said.

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