LONDON, October 1. /TASS/. The United Kingdom has expanded its anti-Russian sanctions regime, adding 23 individuals and legal entities, alongside eight vessels, according to the updated blacklist published by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

The new designations target Alan Gagloev, President of South Ossetia; Marat Kambolov, Advisor to the Russian President; and Sergey Tolmachev, former Deputy Governor of the Zaporozhye Region. Sanctions were also imposed on the regional heads of the Movement of the First (Dvizheniye Pervykh) councils in the DPR, LPR, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions, as well as Crimea.

Additionally, restrictions were introduced against Mamuka Pipia, International Secretary of Georgia's Solidarity for Peace party; Giorgi Iremadze, Chairman of the Union of Young Eurasians of Georgia; and Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, founder of the Sezoni TV channel. The list also sweeps in officials and military personnel from the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Russian FSB officers, and the company Novatek Gas and Power Asia.

Under the restrictions, any assets or bank accounts belonging to the sanctioned individuals and entities in the UK will be frozen, and the listed individuals are subject to a travel ban.