UK Bolstering Russia Sanctions With New Powers to Move Further and Faster: Johnson

UK Bolstering Russia Sanctions With New Powers to Move Further and Faster: Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Estonia and Secretary General of NATO at the Tapa Army Base in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 1, 2022. Leon Neal / Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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The UK is “bolstering” its package of sanctions against the Kremlin with “new powers in our arsenal to go further and faster”, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.

Johnson said the changes will “ramp up the pressure on those criminal elites trying to launder money on UK soil”, ensuring they have “nowhere to hide”.