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  • Russia said Thursday the EU had harmed relations with Moscow after it sanctioned senior aides to President Vladimir Putin over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny and Libya's civil war. "The EU with this step has harmed relations with our country," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, describing the measure as a "consciously unfriendly step" on the part of the EU and vowing that Russia would retaliate. He said there was no logic to the move and, referring to Navalny, expressed regret over a decision that "puts relations between the EU and Moscow at stake over a person who Europe believes is the leader of some kind of opposition". Navalny fell seriously ill on a plane in Siberia and was flown to Germany for treatment in August. Tests carried out by German experts, later confirmed by France, Sweden and the UN's Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), showed he had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. Six Russian officials are listed over the Navalny poisoning, including FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov, head of policy at the Kremlin Andrei Yarin and deputy Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Kirienko. The others sanctioned are Putin's envoy in Siberia Sergei Menyailo and two Russian deputy defence ministers, Pavel Popov and Alexei Krivoruchko. The men are now banned from travelling to the EU and any assets they hold in the bloc will be frozen. The EU also sanctioned Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed "Putin's chef" because his company has done catering for the Kremlin, on the grounds of undermining peace in Libya by supporting the Wagner Group private military company. In a statement, Prigozhin said he was saddened by the move and claimed to have many friends in Europe. "Of course, I am very upset over these sanctions, since I will have to curtail my many business projects in the European Union," he said. He added: "And probably now I will meet less with friends in the European Parliament, many of whom are very decent people who, like me, are supporters of conservative values and fully support me." He insisted he had "no business projects in Libya". Prigozhin, a wealthy tycoon close to Putin, is already under US sanctions over his links to the Wagner mercenary outfit, which has been accused of interfering in various conflicts around Africa. mp-sjw/jbr/gd
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  • EU harms Russia relations with sanctions on Putin aides, Kremlin says
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