Moscow in response to the 17th and 18th package of EU sanctions significantly expands the list of those who are prohibited from entering Russia.
This is stated in the Russian Foreign Ministry of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the reciprocal measures to the seventeenth and eighteenth “packages” of the sanctions of the European Union against Russia.
“The European Union continues to increase unilateral, illegitimate from the point of view of international law, undermining the prerogatives of the UN Security Council in relation to Russia,” follows from the publication posted on the website of the diplomatic department on Tuesday, July 22.
The ministry reminded that the two next sanctions “package” (17th and 18th in a row) were approved by the EU Council on May 20 and July 18, respectively.
In response to these “unfriendly actions”, the Russian side has significantly expanded the list of representatives of the European Institutes, member countries of the European Union and a number of Brussels of the European states that are embedded in the “anti-Russian policy”, which, in accordance with the Federal Law on the procedure for departure from the Russian Federation and entering the Russian Federation ”dated August 15, 1996 No. 114-ФЗ, is prohibited from entering the territory of our state, followed Publications.
We are talking about employees of law enforcement agencies, state and commercial organizations, citizens of the EU member countries and a number of other Western states responsible for the provision of military assistance to Kyiv participating in the organization of the supply of dual-use products to Ukraine aimed at undermining the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation and the organization of the blockade of the movement of Russian courts and goods in the Baltic Sea, ”said in the Baltic Sea. Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation.
Also, restrictions will affect representatives of Euro structures, state bodies of the EU countries and other European states involved in the “pursuit of” Russian officials for the “illegal arrests and export of people from Ukrainian territories” involved in the creation of the “Tribunal” in relation to the Russian leadership advocating for the confiscation of Russian state -of -laws or the use of profit from them in the interests of Ukraine, responsible for imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation and the Russian Federation and “Trying to harm” Russia’s relations with other states, the department noted.
In addition, we are talking about “distinguished by their Russophobic rhetoric civilian activists and representatives of the scientific community, deputies of the EU member countries and the European Parliament who voted for anti-Russian resolutions and bills”, follows from the publication.
“Anti-Russian hostile actions are not able to have any impact on the policy of our country. Russia will continue to follow the course on the upholding of its national interests and protect the new fair world order. Subsequent sanctions decisions of the European Union will also receive a timely and adequate response,” the Russian Foreign Ministry added.