UK Will Impose Sanctions On Russia: PM
London, Feb 22: Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday said the UK will impose sanctions on Russia as President Vladimir Putin has “completely torn up international law”.
Speaking after an emergency COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A) meeting, the PM said an “immediate package of international sanctions” will be imposed on Russia.
The sanctions will include some “in Russia itself, targeting Russian economic interests as hard as we can” and will hit the “economic interests that have been supporting Russia’s war machine”, Sky news reported.
He said, “(The sanctions) will hit Russia very hard and there is a lot more that we are going to do in the event of an invasion.
“Be in no doubt that if Russian companies are prevented from raising capital on the UK financial markets, if we unpeel the facade of Russian ownership of companies, of property, it will start to hurt.”
At the COBRA meeting, Johnson told the officials that Putin is “bent on full-scale invasion of Ukraine”. “I am afraid all the evidence is that President Putin is indeed bent on a full scale invasion of the Ukraine, the overrunning, the subjugation of an independent, sovereign European country and I think, let us be absolutely clear, that will be absolutely catastrophic,” he said.
