Ukraine: Ben Stiller and Sean Penn last Americans banned from Russia

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Kremlin officials have added American actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn to Russia's "shutdown list", meaning they are now banned from entering the country.

They join the likes of fellow Hollywood star Morgan Freeman, US President Joe Biden and outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Russia and some Western countries have exchanged rounds of sanctions since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin have faced similar travel bans in the West.

On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry named 25 senior American officials, businessmen and actors and said they were barred from entering in Russia "permanently".

US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, four Assistant Secretaries of Commerce and six US Senators were on the list.

"The hostile actions of the US authorities, which continue to follow a Russophobic path, destroying bilateral relations and intensifying the confrontation between Russia and the United States, will continue to be resolutely repelled," the official said. ministry.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">Stiller and Penn have been outspoken critics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and both have visited Kyiv since the conflict began.

Stiller - who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - has made his feelings for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clear during a trip he took to the country to mark World Refugee Day in June.

In a clip from the duo, the star thanks Zelensky for "taking the time" to meet him and declares, "You are my hero, you are amazing."

Meanwhile, Penn, who is known for his political activism as much as his films, fled Ukraine in March while filming a documentary about...