Foreign secretary says some Russian billionaires will face ‘rolling programme of sanctions’

Britain has compiled a “hit list” of Russian oligarchs who will face sanctions over the coming weeks, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has said.

She said there were more than 100 billionaires in Russia and that some of them would face “a rolling programme of sanctions” as officials compiled the evidence to justify their assets being frozen in the UK.

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