View of the Tower Bridge in central London over the River Thames. File photoLONDON, Jan 30The bill being developed in Britain will make it possible to impose sanctions against any organizations and individuals from the Russian Federation, said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. “Currently, economic sanctions are very narrow, we could only impose sanctions against companies that were directly involved in the destabilization of Ukraine. what we want to do now is expand this so that any company representing the interests of the Kremlin can be sanctioned,» Truss told Sky News, adding that «Russian companies serving the Russian state will have nowhere to hide.» .
The head of the British Foreign Office did not rule out any options for helping Ukraine»It will not be easy for Russia,» Truss said. It is expected that a bill to tighten the sanctions regime against Russia will be presented in the British Parliament on January 31. The UK does not exclude the possibility that the property of Russian oligarchs in London may be confiscated as part of the tightening of the sanctions regime against Russia in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine, Foreign Minister Liz Truss said. to hit a wider range of targets, so there will be no one who will think that he is immune from sanctions,» Truss said. Asked that such sanctions could hit British investors, Truss said that «democracy and freedom more important than momentary financial interests.» Russia has repeatedly stated that talking to it in the language of sanctions And the plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine are categorically denied in Moscow and constantly declare that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. market due to US sanctions against Russia
