London, Thanasis Gavos
One more wave of sanctions against Russian interestsn announced in the afternoon the government of the United Kingdom.
The complete freezing of the assets of the largest Russian bank, Sberbank, the total ban on British investments in Russia, which in 2020 amounted to 11 billion pounds, and the commitment to completely end the import of Russian coal and oil from the United Kingdom to the United Kingdom stand out. of the year.
The phasing out of oil imports and its derivatives from Russia by 2022, however, had been announced in early March. London imports 8% of its oil from Russia.
As for russian gaswhich accounts for 4% of the UK’s needs, the Johnson’s government said measures would be taken to end imports soon after the end of the year.
Along with the announcements for the new sanctions, The Foreign Office has confirmed that at the G7 Foreign Ministers ‘meeting in Brussels on Thursday, Liz Tras will urge her counterparts to speed up the timetable for ending their countries’ dependence on Russian energy.
The new measureswhere is the fifth wave of sanctions by the United Kingdomare required in coordination with the EU and the US and also provide, inter alia: a freeze on Credit Bank assets, a ban on the export of oil refining equipment and catalysts to Russia, a ban on imports of iron and steel products, and sanctions against eight other Russian oligarchs linked to President Putin or his “war machine.”
Between them Andrei Akimov, head of Russia’s third-largest bank Gazprombank.
London has now imposed sanctions on 18 Russian banks with assets of 40 940 billion and on 82 oligarchs with total assets valued at more than 170 170 billion.
THE Foreign Minister Liz Trass commented that the strengthening of the measures is aimed at ending Putin’s heinous war and helps to end the import of Russian energy.
“Together with our allies, we show the Russian elite that it cannot wash its hands of the atrocities committed on Putin’s orders. “We will not calm down until Ukraine prevails,” she said.
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