প্রকাশ: 22/02/2022
Britain vowed
to impose sanctions on Russia, which it
warned could invade Ukraine imminently, condemning
President Vladimir Putin's recognition of two breakaway regions of
eastern Ukraine as a breach of international law.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered defensive
support in a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, saying while a
diplomatic solution should be pursued until the last possible second, the
situation was deteriorating.
"The Prime Minister told President Zelenskiy that he
believed an invasion was a real possibility in the coming hours and
days," Johnson's office said in a statement following a call between the
leaders.
"He told President Zelenskiy that the UK had already
drawn up sanctions to target those complicit in the violation
of Ukraine's territorial integrity, and that those measures would come
into force tomorrow. The Prime Minister also said he would explore sending
further defensive support to Ukraine, at the request of the Ukrainian
government."
Johnson will agree the package of
immediate sanctions against Russia at an 0630 GMT meeting
of the government's crisis response committee (COBR) on Tuesday, a Downing
Street spokesperson said.
Putin signed a decree recognising the independence of the
regions of Luhansk and Donetsk regions while Johnson was speaking at a news
conference, upping the ante in a crisis the West fears could unleash
a major war.
"It's a ... flagrant violation of the sovereignty and
integrity of Ukraine," Johnson said at that news conference, prior to
the call with Zelenskiy.
"It is a repudiation of the Minsk process and the Minsk
agreements, and I think it's a very ill omen and a very dark sign."
After Putin signed the decree, Johnson told Zelenskiy the
move made the Minsk process - a set of agreements designed to end a separatist
war by Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine - unworkable, a
message echoed by foreign minister Liz Truss, who said Russia had
broken international law.
"We will not allow Russia's violation of its
international commitments to go unpunished," Truss said.
Britain has
prepared sanctions against Russia, and
Tuesday's sanctions may not be the full extent of the response, with
further sanctions in reserve if Putin subsequently decides to invade.
Truss said she had discussed
co-ordinating sanctions with European Union foreign policy chief
Josep Borrell. The United States has also promised additional measures in
response to Putin's move.
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