The government has imposed a new wave of sanctions on Russia, as the United Kingdom has expressed its disapproval of the Russian abduction of Ukrainian children in Russia, with the aim of imposing new sanctions on those involved in the “barbaric treatment of children in Russia. Ukraine “.
Among the targets of the sanctions is the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, the so-called person responsible for the obscure kidnapping program.
Lvova-Belova has been accused by Ukraine of organizing the capture of more than 2,000 vulnerable children by then violently taking them from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and orchestrating a new policy to facilitate their forced adoptions in Russia.
Russia said in May that more than 190,000 children had arrived from Donbas, including some 1,200 from orphanages in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics. Russia said that the vast majority spoke Russian or supported them, and that once they found a home, they would be provided with Russian citizenship.
A number of other Putin allies received sanctions from the Foreign Ministry, including military commanders and Vladimir Mikhailovich, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “Today we are addressing the facilitators and perpetrators of the Putin War that have caused incalculable suffering in Ukraine, including forced relocation and the adoption of children. We will not tire of to defend freedom and democracy, and to keep up the pressure on Putin until Ukraine succeeds. “
Giving parliamentarians an update on the state of the fighting, he said: “We are approaching a critical moment. Russia is bombing towns and cities in the east.
“Some outsiders in Ukraine question whether the free world can maintain their support and say some are getting tired of this war. The people of Ukraine do not have that luxury. Our answer must be clear. Never we will get tired of defending freedom and democracy. Russian aggression cannot be stopped. “
He betrayed the British nervousness that the next G7 summit in Germany could be used by those who support a first negotiated agreement that does not lead to the victory of Ukraine.
He said: “Through the G7 and NATO we are doing everything we can to strengthen Ukraine’s hand. We must also make sure that our Baltic friends and our Polish friends are involved. Sanctions are being imposed. they must hold on while their Russian boots are on Ukrainian soil. “
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Others facing new British sanctions, mainly asset freezes and travel bans, include Sergey Savostyanov, a Moscow City Duma MP and a member of Putin’s political elite, and Alexey Isaykin, president and member of the board of Volga-Dnepr Group, a Russian transport company. with major air operations contracted by the Russian government to create air bridges carrying critical goods.
Four military colonels of the 64th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade, a unit accused of killing, raping and torturing civilians in Bucha, have also been sanctioned for the role of the brigade in Ukraine.
Members of the “Salvation Committee for Peace and Order”, an organization that works with the Russian army to support the occupation of Kherson Oblast, have also been sanctioned.
In an attempt to show links between Russia and other authoritarian regimes, the Foreign Ministry also imposed sanctions on Russian organizations responsible for supplying aircraft parts to the Myanmar armed forces.
The exact number of children, many of them orphans, who are being abducted is unclear, but Ukraine has stated that the number is over 100,000. As a modern form of slavery, the abductees have been taken to the provinces of Vladimirskaya, Omskaya and Chelyabinskaya in Russia and the eastern island of Sakhalin, according to Ukraine. Some of the children were transferred from Mariupol to Donetsk (temporarily occupied by Russia) and then to Taganrog in Russia. Russia is trying to justify the illegal displacement of children as “caring” for orphans.
Last week, the head of Ukraine’s OSCE mission, Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, read messages from children who had been abducted and wanted to return to their grandparents.
He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture, and that his confession had been obtained through torture, but that his confession had been obtained through torture. Ukraine claims 318 children have died in the war.
The Russian Orthodox Church has accused the United Kingdom of an absurd attempt to intimidate.
“Attempts to intimidate the Russian church’s primacy with something or force him to give up his views are foolish, absurd and unpromising,” church spokesman Vladimir Legoyda told Telegram. . “The church, especially now, is the last bridge, a means of communication, which they are trying to destroy for some reason.
“This may be necessary only for those political forces whose main goal is the escalation of the conflict and the alienation of peace.”