UK hits Russia with 'most severe set of sanctions it has ever seen' | ITV News

The UK has hit Russia with "the largest and most severe package of economic sanctions" that the country has "ever seen", Boris Johnson has said, after Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine.

Announcing a list of sanctions, the prime minister told the Commons: "Now we see him for what he is - a bloodstained aggressor, who believes in imperial conquest."

Among the measures was a freeze on all Russian banks' UK assets and a pledge to have the country blocked from the international payment system SWIFT - the full list of ten sanctions will also be placed on Russia's ally Belarus.

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