The UK government on Tuesday announced its “biggest sanctions package” against Russia since ones imposed straight after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago, targeting oil exports and military equipment suppliers.
Marking the anniversary of the invasion, London announced nearly 300 new sanctions as Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper visited Kyiv.
This took the total of companies and individuals targeted by Britain over the Ukraine war to more than 3,000.
New measures included an asset freeze on Russia‘s state controlled pipeline operator Transneft, citing the oil sector’s “strategic significance to the government of Russia”.
Transneft transports over 80 percent of Moscow’s oil exports according to the British government. It has faced Western sanctions since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. (AFP)
