British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday that it would be a mistake to normalize relations with President Vladimir Putin after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Trying to re-normalize relations with Putin after that, as we did in 2014, would be to make the exact same mistake again,” Johnson told a Conservative Party conference.
Over the past few days, the country has imposed several measures against the Russian government. On Tuesday, for example, the United Kingdom said it would ban the export of luxury goods to Russia and would impose new tariffs on 900 million pounds ($1.2 billion) of Russian imports, including the vodka.
Also on Tuesday, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced new sanctions against Russian and Belarusian citizens, including Putin’s “key political allies and propagandists”.
The sanction of a further 370 individuals and entities brings the total number of people sanctioned since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to over 1,000. Of the newly sanctioned individuals, 51 are oligarchs and their families.
Sanctions include an asset freeze and a travel ban. All those sanctioned had already been targeted by the United States, the European Union, Canada or Australia, a spokesperson said.
Days after the war in Ukraine began, a bill was passed in the British parliament that would require the identity of the final owners of properties in the United Kingdom to be revealed. Owners will no longer be able to hide behind a business. The objective is to tighten the siege on money laundering.
Source: CNN Brasil
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