{"id":112770,"date":"2022-06-16T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=112770"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:58:36","slug":"britain-sanctions-patriarch-kirill-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2022\/06\/16\/britain-sanctions-patriarch-kirill-of-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain sanctions Patriarch Kirill of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsPicture\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"newsMetaBlock\">\n<div class=\"newsViews\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsText\">\n<div class=\"newsHeading\">The British Government has announced a new wave of sanctions, including on the Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>That\u2019s according to the government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-sanctions-russian-linked-to-forced-transfers-and-adoptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a>, Ukrinform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-polytics\/3508238-uk-sanctions-top-russian-orthodox-cleric.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we are targeting the enablers and perpetrators of Putin\u2019s war who have brought untold suffering to Ukraine, including the forced transfer and adoption of children. We will not tire of defending freedom and democracy, and keeping up the pressure on Putin, until Ukraine succeeds,\u201d said Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The list of sanctioned persons includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sanctioned for his support and endorsement of Putin\u2019s war<\/p>\n<p>Sergey Savostyanov, the deputy of the Moscow city Duma and member of Putin\u2019s political elite, sanctioned for publicly supporting Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Alexey Isaykin, President and Board Member of Volga-Dnepr Group, a Russian transport company with significant air operations that is contracted by the Russian Government to create air bridges that carry critical goods<\/p>\n<p>Four Military Colonels from the 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, a unit known to have killed, raped, and tortured civilians in Bucha, have also been sanctioned for the Brigade\u2019s role in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the so-called \u2018Salvation Committee for Peace and Order\u2019 &#8211; an organization collaborating with the Russian army to support the occupation of the Kherson Oblast, have also been sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p>The measures include the sanctioning of Russian Children\u2019s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for her alleged involvement in the forced transfer and adoption of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n<p>Lvova-Belova has been accused of enabling 2,000 vulnerable children being violently taken from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and orchestrating a new policy to facilitate their forced adoptions in Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Government has announced a new wave of sanctions, including on the Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill. That\u2019s according to the government\u2019s\u00a0press release, Ukrinform reports. \u201cToday we are targeting the enablers and perpetrators of Putin\u2019s war who have brought untold suffering to Ukraine, including the forced transfer and adoption of children. We will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5148,5142,5153],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-church-en","8":"category-news","9":"category-top-en"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/312430_FoNaljqCTa_religion-e1655378727380.jpg?fit=1219%2C643&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}