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FCDO travel advice for Russia. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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Updates, news and events from the UK government in Russia
This page provides guidance on the UK’s sanctions regime relating to Russia.
The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 ensure sanctions relating to Russia are implemented effectively after the UK leaves the EU.
Politico-Military Counsellor, Ankur Narayan, adds that despite the staggering costs to Russia, Putin is no closer to subjugating Ukraine. Russia can minimise its losses by withdrawing all of its forces from all of Ukraine.
UK military advisor, Nicholas Aucott, says Russia’s casualty figures stand at over 300,000, leading to desertion and record numbers of Russians seeking asylum.
UK military advisor, Nicholas Aucott, says Russia’s economy is running hot in a war that is projected to cost Russia half a million casualties by 2025.
Ambassador Holland condemns Russia's attacks against healthcare workers and facilities, including "double tap" strikes, in Ukraine.
UK, US and Canada regret Russia's lack of response to the Vienna Mechanism of March 2024 on prison conditions and call for immediate humanitarian release of Vladimir Kara-Murza.
The governments of the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom gave a statement on Russian actions in the leadup to the Moldovan presidential election.
UK announces 50 new sanctions designations and specifications to degrade Putin’s war machine, in co-ordinated action with G7 partners to support Ukraine [ 13 June 2024].
Statement by UK Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
As Orthodox Christians in Ukraine prepare to mark Easter, Ambassador Holland raises Russia's suppression of freedom of religion and calls for an end to its illegal war.
The move is part of a major package of measures to tighten defences against alleged malign activity by Russia across the UK and Europe.
UK military advisor, Nicholas Aucott, says Russia’s human wave attacks are a grotesque approach that demonstrates the depths to which Putin will go to prop up Russian elite.
As Ambassador Holland marks 10 years since Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, Russia's repressive measures in Crimea have become a blueprint for its actions in the temporarily Russian controlled territories.
Joint statement by the embassies of a number of Western countries in the Russian Federation on the occasion of Pride Month
Politico-Military Counsellor, Ankur Narayan, adds that the UK will support Ukraine for as long as it takes to secure a just and sustainable peace.
Today’s action brings the world’s two largest metal exchanges into the scope of existing bans.
Ambassador Holland tells the OSCE's Economic and Environmental Committee that Russia's commitment to refrain from acts of economic coercion lies in tatters.
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