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“We can only regret those hostile measures,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that “the principle of reciprocity will be clearly applied.”
The UK has released its first list of post-Brexit individuals and organizations to be sanctioned for human rights abuses, involving 49 entities, including 25 from Russia and 20 from Saudi Arabia.
Russian entities have been implicated for their alleged link to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and Saudi entities for their alleged role in the murder of journalist Yamal Khashoggi, the UK Foreign Ministry said.
All assets of all these entities in the UK will be frozen and they will also be banned from entering the country.
For the first time, Britain has independently announced sanctions against individuals and organizations accused of human rights abuses. In the past, London has complied with the sanctions regime imposed by the European Union or the United Nations.
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