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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

UK aims sanctions at Russians accused of abducting Ukrainian children

Vladimir Putin meets and Maria Lvova-Belova at the Kremlin in Moscow in March.
Vladimir Putin meets and Maria Lvova-Belova at the Kremlin in Moscow in March. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images

A fresh wave of sanctions against Russia has been imposed by the government, as the UK signalled its disapproval of the Russian abduction of Ukrainian children into Russia, by aiming new sanctions at people involved with the “barbaric treatment of children in Ukraine”.

Those targeted by sanctions include the Russian children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, the so-called mastermind behind the shadowy abduction programme.

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