Russia announces travel bans against EU officials in response to Navalny sanctions
The nation’s international ministry stated on Tuesday that the officials might be denied entry to Russia.
It didn’t title which representatives can be barred, however stated it had relayed its choice to the ambassadors of Germany, France and Sweden after summoning them earlier on Tuesday.
France and Germany led a European push for sanctions following the decision, and had been supported by UK and EU leaders.
“We consider the adoption by the European Union at the behest of its leading Member States of illegitimate restrictive measures against some of our fellow citizens under the pretext of their alleged involvement in the incident with Russian citizen Alexey Navalny to be absolutely unacceptable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stated in a press release on Tuesday.
The officials won’t be allowed to enter Russia, the ministry added. “We reaffirm that any unfriendly action by Western countries will inevitably be met with an adequate response.”
Laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden have beforehand stated they had been in a position to hint the presence of nerve agent Novichok in Navalny’s samples following his poisoning in Tomsk, Russia.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on Tuesday that he hadn’t watched the video of the dialog, however slammed Navalny as a megalomaniac with a “Jesus” complicated.
