UK Sanctions Russian Spies Over Cyber Warfare Operations

The UK government sanctioned 18 people it named as spies from Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency who it said were responsible for conducting cyber and hybrid warfare operations against Britain and Ukraine.

One of the sanctioned GRU units carried out online reconnaissance to help target missile strikes against Mariupol in Ukraine, enabling a 2022 attack that destroyed a theater in the city killing hundreds of civilians, the Foreign Office said in a statement.