The UK has sanctioned a Russian public official for the “forced transfer and adoption of Ukrainian children”, the foreign secretary Liz Truss said.
The latest wave of sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine also targets four colonels from the 64th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade, a unit known to have killed, raped and tortured civilians in Bucha, and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, who Ms Truss said had “repeatedly abused his position to justify the war”.
