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Daily Mirror
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Politics
Rachel Wearmouth & Lizzy Buchan

UK sanctions Kremlin propagandists and 'butcher of Mariupol' Mikhail Mizintsev

Kremlin propagandists, a Russian general dubbed "the butcher of Mariupol" and a Moscow-funded TV network have all been slapped with sanctions by the UK.

The latest names added to the government's sanctions list include Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, propagandist Sergey Brilev and Kremlin funded TV-Novosti, which owns the Russia Today (RT) news channel.

Aleksandr Zharov, chief executive of Gazprom-Media, Alexey Nikolov the managing director of RT, and Anton Anisimov, the head of Sputnik International Broadcasting, were also sanctioned.

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