“Major Russian banks will be excluded from the UK financial system and oligarchs have been targeted in new sanctions announced by Boris Johnson.
“The prime minister told the House of Commons they were “the largest and most severe package of economic sanctions that Russia has ever seen”.
“Russia’s national airline Aeroflot will also be banned from landing in the UK.
“It follows Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine which began with air strikes in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“Mr Johnson told MPs that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “bloodstained aggressor” who would “stand condemned in the eyes of the world and of history” for invading Ukraine.”
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