UK to impose sanctions on Russia over ‘attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty’ | Ukraine

The UK will announce new sanctions on Russia on Tuesday “in response to their breach of worldwide legislation and assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, the international secretary, Liz Truss, has stated.

It comes because the Ukraine disaster intensified after Vladimir Putin stated he would recognise two breakaway republics. The Russian president later introduced he was ordering troops to the area on a “peacekeeping mission”.

The choice to recognise Donetsk and Luhansk in jap Ukraine was an “unwell omen” and a flagrant breach of worldwide legislation, Boris Johnson stated.

Truss tweeted in regards to the new sanctions on Monday night after saying Putin’s actions couldn’t be allowed to go “unpunished”.

“Tomorrow we can be asserting new sanctions on Russia in response to their breach of worldwide legislation and assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” she stated.

After the information emerged of Russian troops shifting, she stated she had spoken to Josep Borrell, the EU’s excessive consultant for international affairs, saying the EU and UK had agreed to “coordinate to ship swift sanctions towards Putin’s regime and stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine”.

Earlier on Monday, the international secretary stated the popularity of the Donetsk Folks’s Republic and the Luhansk Folks’s Republic as unbiased states “demonstrates Russia’s choice to decide on a path of confrontation over dialogue”.

“We’ll coordinate our response with allies,” she stated. “We won’t permit Russia’s violation of its worldwide commitments to go unpunished.”