British Ambassador to Moscow Deborah Bronnert has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry to warn of new UK sanctions imposed on Russian media in a move believed to be likely to portend repression against British press operations in Russia.
In a statement late Friday, the ministry said Russia would continue to respond “harshly and decisively” to all sanctions imposed by London.
Earlier this week, the United Kingdom announced sanctions against state-run Channel One, accusing it of “spreading misinformation in Russia, justifying Putin’s illegal invasion as a ‘special military operation.’
Britain has also imposed sanctions on a group of Russian journalists belonging to the Russian army in Ukraine, including Yevgeny Poddubny, a military correspondent for the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Alexander Kotz, a military correspondent for the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Dmitry Steshin. channel.
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The United Kingdom has also spoken out against RT and Sputnik’s websites, saying: “For too long, RT and Sputnik have been throwing dangerous nonsense dressed as serious news to justify Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ofcom has already been banned from licensing RT’s broadcasting license in the United Kingdom after being the subject of repeated complaints of breaches of its license.
Russia’s foreign ministry has taken a tougher line with diplomats from liberal democracies in recent weeks, in part in response to the expulsion of large numbers of Russian diplomats from Europe.
The United Kingdom was one of the few Western diplomats that has not expelled Russian diplomats in the past two months, but has been at the forefront of countries imposing sanctions on oligarchs.
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