The UK has imposed new sanctions on a number of Russian “propagandists” and media organisations for spreading “lies and deceit” about the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin-backed TV-Novosti, which controls the RT news channel, and the state-owned Rossiya Segodnya, which is responsible for the Sputnik news agency, were among 14 new entries added to the UK’s sanctions list on March 31. Sergey Brilev, a presenter on the Rossiya channel, RT’s managing director Alexey Nikolov, Sputnik’s editor-in-chief Anton Anisimov, and the chief executive of Gazprom-Media Aleksandr Zharov were also sanctioned. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war on Ukraine is based on a torrent of lies. Britain has helped lead the world in exposing Kremlin disinformation, and this latest batch of sanctions hits the shameless propagandists who push out Putin’s fake news and narratives. “We will keep on going with more sanctions to ramp up the pressure on …