{"id":1264905,"date":"2025-07-18T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uk-imposes-sanctions-on-russias-gru-for-cyberattacks-and-war-crimes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:38:04","slug":"uk-imposes-sanctions-on-russias-gru-for-cyberattacks-and-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/uk-imposes-sanctions-on-russias-gru-for-cyberattacks-and-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"UK imposes sanctions on Russia&#8217;s GRU for cyberattacks and war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on the Russian GRU for conducting a long-running campaign of cyber activity and a series of war crimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-sanctions-russian-spies-at-the-heart-of-putins-malicious-regime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> on the British government website.<\/p>\n<p> The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions against three GRU units and 18 military intelligence officers.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;GRU units have been exposed for their involvement in the bombing of the Mariupol theater, the attack on Yulia Skripal, and cyber operations in support of Putin&#8217;s illegal war in Ukraine,&#8221; the government statement said.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the GRU&#8217;s task is to create chaos, discord, and unrest in Ukraine and around the world with devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p> The sanctions are also aimed at GRU military intelligence officers who were involved in the attack on Yulia Skripal&#8217;s devices using malware.<\/p>\n<p> In the UK, Russian intelligence agents targeted:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> mass media;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> telecommunications service providers;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> political and democratic institutions;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> energy infrastructure.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> &#8220;The UK and our international allies are monitoring Russia and countering its attacks both publicly and behind the scenes,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/obmezhennia-dlia-bankiv-naftovoi-haluzi-i-tinovoho-flotu-rf-yes-skhvalyv-18-y-paket-sanktsiy\/\">EU ambassadors have approved a new, eighteenth package of sanctions against Russia<\/a> . The package focuses on reducing the maximum price for Russian oil, as well as limiting Russia&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> As reported, the Donald Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-daly-rosii-50-dniv-bez-prypynennia-vohniu-rf-otrymaie-zhorstki-sanktsii-ta-taryfy\/\">will impose secondary sanctions and tariffs against Russia if a ceasefire is not achieved in Ukraine within 50 days.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on the Russian GRU for conducting a long-running campaign of cyber activity and a series of war crimes. This was reported on the British government website. The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions against three GRU units and 18 military intelligence officers. &#8220;GRU units have been exposed for their involvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1232459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76892,76870],"class_list":["post-1264905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-economy","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}