Three more DUP deputies have been punished by sanctions by Russia, along with high-profile journalists and staff from Belfast-based Thales UK, which creates missiles.
PS Gregory Campbell, Gavin Robinson and Sammy Wilson were added to the list along with 17 “people associated with the defense complex” by Russia’s Foreign Ministry in retaliation for UK measures on the invasion of Ukraine.
Other sanctions were also imposed on staff members of Thales UK, a Belfast-based Castlereagh-based company that designs and builds electrical systems and provides services to the aerospace, defense, transport and security markets, as well as missiles.
In this company, CEO and Chairman of the Board Alexander Cresswell was added to the list along with the company’s chief operating officer Christopher Shaw and vice presidents Paul Gosling, Ewen McCrorie, Suzanne Stratton and Lynne Watson.
In April, Paul Girvan and Jim Shannon of the DUP imposed “personal restrictions” on them, including a travel ban.
They were sanctioned along with 285 other members of the House of Commons who, according to Russia, have fueled “unjustified Russophobic hysteria.”
Speaking in the House of Commons during questions from the Prime Minister at the time, Boris Johnson said sanctions should be seen as a “badge of honor” by lawmakers.