Russia says it will reciprocate after UK ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions

Vladimir Putin's spokesman says Moscow will respond to Britain's human rights move

The Kremlin has said it will take countermeasures against the UK after the British government imposed sanctions on Monday against senior Russian officials including a close ally of Vladimir Putin.

Putin's press spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Moscow would respond to the decision by the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to put 25 Russians on a new sanctions list. One of them is Alexander Bastrykin, Russia's top prosecutor and the head of the investigative committee.