Among new entities targeted are oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler, Russian FM’s stepdaughter, and Moscow-installed ‘mayor’ of Melitopol – for ‘collaborating’ with invaders. Britain slapped sanctions Thursday on 59 more Russian individuals and entities, as well as six Belarusian enterprises over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, targeting a shadowy mercenary firm and the world’s largest diamond producer. The latest measures, against a range of key strategic industries and people, takes to more than 1,000 the number of Russian and Belarusian individuals and businesses sanctioned by London in recent weeks. Those now include the billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler, who has close ties to Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich. (…) The Wagner Group, an organization of Russian mercenaries that has been active in the Kremlin’s other recent conflict zones and has reportedly been tasked with assassinating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, was also sanctioned. The group has been faced multiple accusations of carrying out crimes and atrocities around the world. Wagner has been linked to a powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin. “These oligarchs, businesses and hired thugs are complicit in the murder of innocent civilians and it is right that they pay the price,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement announcing the new package of penalties.
via times of israel: UK sanctions dozens more Russians including Wagner mercenary group, Abramovich ally