New Delhi, July 8 -- Britain imposed sanctions Monday on nine Russian people and entities it said developed chemical weapons used to kill opposition leader Alexei Navalny and attack a former spy in England.

The sanctions came the same day the U.K. criticized Russia's "unsafe" approach to Royal Navy vessels in the Arctic.

The Foreign Office announced sanctions against seven people and two scientific institutes. It says they were involved in creating the epibatidine toxin used to poison Navalny in an Arctic penal colony in 2024 and the Novichok nerve agent used in a 2018 attack in the English city of Salisbury targeting former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal. The attack left Skripal and his daughter seriously ill and a local w...