More than 100 Brits positioned on wished checklist by Russia
Russia has positioned greater than 100 Britons – together with support employees, volunteers and a soldier who died in fight – on a wished checklist.
The Kremlin’s inside ministry put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and different high-profile politicians important of Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine on its up to date checklist of individuals it accuses of felony exercise.
They additionally embrace 93 individuals from the UK accused of signing as much as battle alongside Ukraine since Russia invaded nearly two years in the past.
General Gwyn Jenkins, vice chief of the defence employees, is among the many most high-profile names on the checklist.
The Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office declined to remark.
Russia has positioned greater than 100 Britons – together with support employees, volunteers and a soldier who died in fight – on a wished checklist
The Kremlin’s inside ministry put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (pictured) and different high-profile politicians important of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on its up to date checklist
But others embrace Harley Whitehead and Steven Dickinson, from east Lancashire, who’ve helped ship support to Ukraine.
The checklist additionally consists of Ben Atkin, from Scotland, who at 18 was the youngest recognized Briton to affix the warfare.
Another to characteristic is Simon Lingard, 38, from Preston, who was fatally injured whereas preventing within the Donetsk area in November 2022.
Estonian premier Ms Kallas appeared on the Russian inside ministry’s wished checklist together with Estonian state secretary Taimar Peterkop and various different officers.
General Gwyn Jenkins (proper), vice chief of the defence employees, is among the many most high-profile names on the checklist
Another to characteristic is Simon Lingard, 38, from Preston, (pictured) who was fatally injured whereas preventing within the Donetsk area in November 2022
They have been listed in reference to the ‘destruction of monuments to Soviet troopers’, Russian international ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova mentioned.
‘Crimes towards the reminiscence of the liberators of the world from Nazism and fascism have to be punished. And that is just the start,’ she added.
Russia has legal guidelines criminalising the ‘rehabilitation of Nazis’ that embrace clauses punishing the desecration of warfare memorials, and Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s high felony investigation company, has a devoted division to cope with alleged ‘falsification of historical past’ and ‘rehabilitation of Nazism,’ which has ramped up its motion because the begin of the warfare, in line with Mediazona, an impartial Russian information outlet that analysed the wished checklist.
Ms Kallas, a staunch critic of Russia and its Ukraine offensive, mentioned the transfer was unsurprising.
