Britain on Tuesday vowed to “hit Russia very hard” with targeted sanctions and promised tougher measures in the event of a full-scale invasion, after the Kremlin ordered troops into two Moscow-backed rebel regions of Ukraine, IgbereTV reports.
After an early morning meeting with security chiefs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to reveal a “first barrage of UK economic sanctions against Russia” in parliament later.
“They will hit Russia very hard and there is a lot more that we are going to do in the event of an invasion,” he told reporters.
“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.”
Johnson said he might have to go further given the expectation of “more Russian irrational behaviour to come” as “all the evidence is that President Putin is indeed bent on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine
