{"id":44461,"date":"2025-04-23T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44461\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:01:08","slug":"moscow-blocks-21-uk-politicians-from-entering-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44461\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow blocks 21 UK politicians from entering Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the ministry, the MPs targeted had made \u201chostile statements and unfounded accusations\u201d against Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing targeted by this thuggish, criminal regime is a compliment,\u201d Labour MP Blair McDougall, among those sanctioned, told POLITICO. \u201cThat amongst the reasons is that I have been rude to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin shows how brittle and pathetic his regime is. This won\u2019t stop British MPs from speaking up for the people of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labour MP Phil Brickell said Putin \u201chas another thing coming\u201d if he thinks the ban will silence them.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democrat defense spokesperson Helen Maguire, also on the list, said she would \u201cwear this retaliatory sanction as a badge of honor,\u201d adding that \u201cthis knee-jerk reaction to our pressure on Russia shows that we\u2019ve got under Putin\u2019s skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The travel ban was announced the same day London <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/marco-rubio-steve-witkoff-russia-donald-trump-pull-out-of-ukraine-talks-amid-crimea-split\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted peace talks<\/a> on Ukraine, attended by U.S. and European officials as well as top Ukrainian representatives including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the ministry accused the U.K. of \u201cdemonizing\u201d Russia and \u201cactively fabricating anti-Russian narratives\u201d to undermine Moscow\u2019s global standing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia\u2019s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, London has remained one of Kyiv\u2019s most steadfast allies, with the U.K. Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-says-it-has-25-billion-in-frozen-russian-assets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">freezing over \u00a325 billion<\/a> in Russian assets and sanctioning more than 2,000 individuals and entities linked to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Honeycombe-Foster contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the ministry, the MPs targeted had made \u201chostile statements and unfounded accusations\u201d against Moscow. \u201cBeing targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[24605,748,393,4884,660,1144,5111,332,7705,2663,712,16,657,15,49,333,2601,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-44461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-andriy-yermak","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-kremlin","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-parliament","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-rustem-umerov","18":"tag-sanctions","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","26":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114388591356329408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}