UK prime minister says sanctions will ‘hit Russia very hard’ as ministers assert invasion of Ukraine has begun
The “first barrage of UK economic sanctions against Russia” will be announced on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said, as one of his senior cabinet ministers said the Russian “invasion of Ukraine has begun”.
Speaking after a 6.30am Cobra meeting, Johnson said the Kremlin was bent on a “full-scale invasion of Ukraine” and said the UK’s sanctions would hit the “economic interests that have been supporting Russia’s war machine”, a suggestion the UK was prepared to continue ratcheting up measures.
