Author: HM Government

This page lists the entities and individuals designated on 11 May 2026 under the UK’s Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.  Entities and individuals involved in the forced deportation, re-education, and militarisation of Ukrainian children:  Yulia Sergeevna VELICHKO  Nadezhda Nikolaevna BOLTENKO   Andrey Alexandrovich USTINSKIKH  Grigory Alexandrovich GUROV  Vladislav Nikolaevich GOLOVIN  Mikhail Yuryevich DRUZHININ   Olga Sergeyevna DRUZHININA  Iryna Viktorivna KRAVCHENKO   […]

The UK has sanctioned 85 individuals and entities involved in the forced deportation, indoctrination and militarisation of Ukrainian children, alongside those driving Russia’s information warfare campaigns  In some of the toughest action to date, the UK is exposing and combatting hostile Russian activity across multiple fronts, including recent attempts to interfere in Armenian elections  An additional £1.2 million in UK funding will help identify and return Ukrainian children to their homes and communities The UK is today [Monday 11 May] exposing and taking action against Russia’s hostile […]

Colleagues, at the outset, I want to underline UK concern at rising conflict in the region and beyond.  I also want to stress that peaceful co-existence between communities is essential.  The United Kingdom was shocked by the despicable antisemitic terror attack in London last week.  There is no place in our societies for racially motivated […]

8 May Statement from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) The UK government continues to work with international authorities in preparing for the arrival of British nationals to the UK from the MV Hondius cruise ship where an outbreak of Hantavirus […]

On behalf of the Democracy Defender Initiative, I would like to inform the Permanent Council of the following matter.   In 2016, the Democracy Defender Award was established to recognize the enormous contribution that civil society makes to defending and promoting democracy in the OSCE region.  The Award honours outstanding contributions to upholding the principles of the Helsinki Final Act.   In […]

First, the United Kingdom underscores UNISFA’s critical role in protecting civilians and maintaining stability in a fragile environment.  It is essential that UNISFA is able to deliver its mandate in full.  We are concerned by continued restrictions on UNISFA’s freedom of movement, the limited progress by the Sudanese and South Sudanese authorities against key mandate […]

I am delivering this statement on behalf of the following participating States, members of the Informal Group of Friends on the Safety of Journalists: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and my own country Finland. The following participating States have also aligned with this […]

Thank you, Mr Chair. Tomorrow, as we mark VE Day, we remember the end of a war that devastated a continent and claimed millions of lives. But remembrance is not an exercise in nostalgia. It is a test of whether we have learned the lessons of that catastrophe. Eighty‑one years ago, Europe resolved that security […]

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Thank you, Mr Chair.  This Friday, participating States will mark Victory in Europe Day. It is an appropriate moment for this Forum to reflect on the politico-military architecture that we collectively built in the decades after the Second World War to ensure, as the Helsinki Final Act’s first sentence put it, “true and lasting peace” in Europe.  The OSCE’s politico‑military acquis was designed to reduce the risks […]