Moscow said on Tuesday it was hitting several EU representatives with tit-for-tat sanctions in response to the bloc’s decision to place travel bans on Russian officials over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August. Russia’s foreign ministry summoned senior diplomats from several European Union countries to voice discontent over their response to the poisoning attack on Putin critic Navalny.
Previously, the EU and Britain imposed sanctions on six Russians and a state scientific research centre accused of attacking Navalny with banned nerve agent.