British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss. File photoLONDON, Mar 10British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is calling for increased international sanctions pressure on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, the country's foreign office said. Truss, who is currently on a working visit to the United States, will give a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington on Thursday. “Lise Truss will call on the world to increase global pressure on (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. We must go even further in terms of sanctions to increase pressure, including a complete ban on SWIFT, freezing all Russian banking assets and encouraging other countries to join these efforts,” the Foreign Ministry cites excerpts from her upcoming speech. Truss will call for measures that “they (Russia – ed.) could not have access to funds, could not pay bills, trade so that their ships could not enter ports and planes land.» «We must do more to deliver defensive weapons and respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis. We will all do it, and we will shape this new era of global security,” Truss said.The US Treasury urged the West to coordinate for new sanctions against Russia. According to the minister, «the invasion of Ukraine is a paradigm shift of scale on September 11.» «The way we react now will set the format for this new era. We must start with the principle — the only thing that the aggressors understand is strength, and we must start working together to stop Putin's offensive in Ukraine,» the head of the foreign policy is going to say. departments of Britain. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. In response, Western countries have imposed another anti-Russian sanctions since 2014. As the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said earlier, the Western sanctions are very serious, Russia was preparing for them in advance. He added that they require analysis and coordination of departments in order to develop response measures that are in the interests of the Russian Federation. sanctions. It turns out bad
