UK sanctions Russian institutes and individuals over chemical weapons used on Navalny and Skripal.
Britain imposed sanctions on nine Russian people and entities, including two scientific institutes, for developing chemical weapons used in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and the 2018 Salisbury attack on Sergei Skripal. The sanctions target SC Signal and GNIII VM along with senior officials and scientists. The announcement coincided with a UK defense ministry statement criticizing an unsafe Russian aircraft approach to British naval vessels in the Arctic.
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“UK sanctions Russian labs and people over chemical weapons used on Navalny and Skripal”
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“UK sanctions Russian labs and people over chemical weapons used on Navalny, Skripal”