UK Expands Russia Sanctions Over Chemical Weapon Use in Ukraine

On 7 July, the United Kingdom updated its list of individuals subject to sanctions for the use of chemical weapons, adding two individuals and one organisation from Russia.

The Gaze reports on this with reference to European Pravda.

According to changes on the British government's website, the Russian Research Institute of Applied Chemistry, as well as the head of the radiological, chemical and biological protection forces, Alexei Rtishchev, and his deputy, Andrei Marchenko, have been hit with British sanctions.

The British side explained that the institute provided the Russian army with hand-held chemical grenades, which they used against the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Rtishchev and Marchenko ‘were involved in the transfer and use of chemical weapons in Ukraine,’ according to the British government's explanation.

In October 2024, Britain already imposed sanctions against three Russian institutions and one individual in connection with the use of chemical weapons by the Russian military against Ukraine.

It recently became known that the Dutch special services had gathered evidence of Russia's widespread use of banned chemical weapons in the war against Ukraine.

As The Gaze reported earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has issued a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defence Council to synchronise sanctions pressure on Russia between Ukraine and its international partners.