The Committee of Permanent Representatives in the EU (Coreper) gave their agreement on Wednesday 16 January, without debate, to restrictive measures against nine persons and one entity linked to the use of chemical weapons, according to a European source.
These persons include four members of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service, including Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, suspected by the British government of having poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his...