UK Adds 86 People, Entities to Russia Sanctions List

The U.K. added 86 new entries to its Russia sanctions list, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation announced. The listings cover 42 people and 44 entities linked to Russia's energy, metals, defense, transportation and financial sectors, including Oleg Romanenko, head official at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, 13 members of the Gazprom Neft board of directors and five members of the Transneft board of directors.

Also included on the list are nine companies tied to Russia's state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom and Igor Altushkin, owner of the Russian Copper Company. Six shipping companies, five financial firms and 20 defense executives and companies also were sanctioned.

The notice also delisted three people from the sanctions regime: Nikolay Petrunin, member of the State Duma of Russia; Kyrylo Stremousov, president of the Salvation Committee for Peace and Order in Kherson; and Vladimir Sungorkin, director-general and editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda.