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The UK has sanctioned Russian officials for chemical weapons use in Ukraine, imposing asset freezes and travel bans on key figures and entities.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Monday targeted two Russian individuals and one Russian entity as part of its chemical weapons sanctions regime, in its latest effort to punish Moscow for the war in Ukraine.
It imposed asset freezes and travel bans on Aleksey Viktorovich Rtishchev and Andrei Marchenko, the head and deputy head of Russia's radiological chemical and biological defence troops, for their role in the transfer and use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, the British government said.
It said the Joint Stock Company Federal Scientific and Production Centre Scientific Research Institute of Applied Chemistry was sanctioned for supplying RG-Vo riot control agent grenades to the Russian military.
The grenades have been used as a method of warfare against Ukraine in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the British government said.
The Russian embassy in London did not immediately respond to Reuters request for a comment. Moscow has previously called Western sanctions illegal.
(Reporting by Muvija MEditing by Marguerita Choy)
The UK imposed asset freezes and travel bans on Aleksey Viktorovich Rtishchev and Andrei Marchenko for their involvement in chemical weapons activities.
The company was sanctioned for supplying RG-Vo riot control agent grenades used against Ukraine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The Russian embassy in London did not immediately respond to the request for comment, but Moscow has previously labeled Western sanctions as illegal.
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