Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has suggested that British officials seek medical help over the decision

British officials should seek medical help over the latest sanctions, which target a Russian psychiatric hospital and children’s camps, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

On Monday, London added 85 individuals and entities to its Russia sanctions list, including Clinical Psychiatric Hospital No. 5 in Crimea, along with several orphanages, children’s health camps, boarding houses, a resort, and a youth center on the peninsula.

“When the [British PM Keir] Starmer government imposes sanctions on a psychiatric hospital, it is time for London to call in the medics,” Zakharova told the newspaper Izvestia.

The UK Foreign Office has claimed that the institutions are involved in activities deemed to destabilize Ukraine by alleged facilitation of “the forced deportation, indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children.”

Moscow has insisted that since the start of the…