Foreign Secretary<\/a> James Cleverly announced 14 new sanctions in response to Russia\u2019s attempts to destroy Ukrainian national identity, including 11 against those involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children. Today\u2019s announcement comes ahead of the Foreign Secretary\u2019s speech at the UN Security Council (UNSC), where he will highlight the far-reaching implications of Russia\u2019s war, call on Russia to renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative, and outline the need for a just, lasting peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAmong the designations announced are those of Russian officials Ksenia Mishonova, Commissioner for Children\u2019s Rights in the Moscow Region, and Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of Russia. These individuals have played an insidious role in Russia\u2019s calculated programme of deportation, designed to erase Ukrainian cultural and national identity. Over 19,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported to Russia or temporarily Russian-controlled territory by Russian authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many deported children are relocated to a network of re-education camps in illegally annexed Crimea and mainland Russia, where they are exposed to Russia-centric academic, cultural, patriotic, and military education. This latest package of designations follows the UK\u2019s sanctioning of Russian Children\u2019s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova in June 2022 for her alleged involvement in the forced transfer and adoption of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also sanctioned today are two Russian propagandists responsible for spreading abhorrent propaganda designed to incite violence and hatred towards Ukraine and its people, including Anton Krasovsky, a former Russia Today presenter, who claimed live on air that Ukrainian children should be drowned and burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova is additionally targeted for using her position to support the Russian state\u2019s damaging anti-Ukrainian policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In his chilling programme of forced child deportation and the hate-filled propaganda spewed by his lackeys, we see Putin\u2019s true intention\u2014to wipe Ukraine from the map,” Mr. Cleverly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Today\u2019s sanctions hold those who prop up Putin\u2019s regime to account, including those who would see Ukraine destroyed, its national identity dissolved, and its future erased,” The Foreign Secretary noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UK and its international partners have implemented the most severe package of sanctions ever imposed on a major economy. Over 1,600 individuals and entities have been sanctioned since the start of the invasion, including 29 banks with global assets worth \u00a31 trillion, over 130 oligarchs with a combined net worth of over \u00a3145 billion, and over \u00a320 billion worth of UK-Russia trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later today, in New York, the Foreign Secretary will use his speech during a UK-chaired session of the UNSC to call for a just, lasting peace in Ukraine and highlight Russia\u2019s barbaric forced deportation of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is expected to say, “Ukraine wants peace. We want peace. The whole world wants peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Peace will bring home Ukraine\u2019s lost children and feed the hungry of the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The devastating effects of Putin\u2019s aggression can be felt in every corner of the globe. Vital grain supplies from Ukraine will be cut off, and millions will face exacerbated food insecurity if Russia does not agree to a renewal of the Black Sea Grain Initiative today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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