UK slaps sanctions against 12 Russia’s top military officials

MOSCOW, Dec 13 (PRIME) -- The U.K. has imposed sanctions against 12 Russia’s top military officials, as seen by PRIME in a document published on the British government’s website on Tuesday.

“Twelve senior commanders of Russian military forces, including units implicated in attacks on Ukrainian cities, have been sanctioned. Major General Robert Baranov, identified by a Bellingcat investigation as the commander of a unit responsible for programming and targeting Russian cruise missiles, is among those targeted,” the document read.

The authority said that “all individuals are subject to an asset freeze and travel ban.”

Besides Director of Main Computation Centre of the General Staff Baranov, the individuals are:

• Colonel General Sergei Karakayev, Commander, Strategic Missile Forces
• Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, Commander, Airborne Forces
• Lieutenant General Mikhail Matveyevsky, Commander, Missile Troops and Artillery
• Lieutenant General Nikolai Parshin, Head of the Main Missile-Artillery Directorate
• Lieutenant General Alexander Sanchik, Commander, 35th Combined Arms Army
• Lieutenant General Mikhail Zusko, Chief of Staff Russian Forces Group (West)
• Major General Alexei Avdeyev, Commander, 3rd Motorized Rifle Division
• Major General Alexander Novikov, Head of the Department for Construction and Management of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Major General Oleg Tsokov, Commander,144th Motorized Rifle Division
• Colonel Georgy Shuvayev, Head of Missile Troops and Artillery of the 1st Tank Army
• Colonel Yevgeny Zhuravlyev, Commander, 4th Tank Division

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