The Foreign Ministry warned about the response to Western sanctions against the FSB because of Navalny

Measures in response to British sanctions against seven FSB officers involved, according to the British authorities, in the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, will be asymmetric, but adequate. Sergei Belyaev, DIRECTOR of the Second European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS about this.

“The reaction from our side will follow, what it will be, this is another question, it can be asymmetric, but it will always [be] adequate,” Belyaev said. According to him, such a move by Britain is "far-fetched" and "without any basis."

On August 20, Britain added Kirill Vasilyev, General and Director of the FSB Institute of Forensic Science, Alexei Sedov, HEAD of the Second Service of the FSB (Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism), Alexei Alexandrov (Alexei Frolov), an FSB officer, and Vladimir Panyaev, to the sanctions list. three intelligence officers. All of them, according to London, were involved in the poisoning of Navalny.

On the same day, the United States imposed sanctions against the same people, as well as against two more employees of the FSB, the Institute of Criminalistics and the State Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense.