The UK government, in coordination with the European Union, has sanctioned 178 individuals linked to pro-Russian separatist regions of Eastern Ukraine.
The UK Foreign Office said the new sanctions are intended to target “those who prop up Russian-backed illegal breakaway regions of Ukraine.”
This comes after a missile attack on a packed railway station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on April 8, which killed 50 people and wounded many more.
The Russian government has rejected Ukrainian accusations that its forces had been deliberately targeting civilians.
But the UK Foreign Office said on April 13 that “there is mounting evidence of atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, including accounts of sexual violence.”
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