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| Ukraine conflict: [Foreign Secretary] Liz Truss backs people from UK who want to fight |
| 2022-02-28 |
| [BBC] The UK government has stressed that British troops will not be sent to fight on the ground. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Ukraine would instead be supported to "fight every street with every piece of equipment we can get to them". She said the UK government was "doing all it can" to support Ukraine with defensive weapons on the ground and with "far more severe sanctions" against Russia, to stop Putin from funding his "war machine". "We are seeing a huge united effort, across the G7, across our allies, to challenge Vladimir Putin," she said. "Because this is Putin's war. This is pre-fabricated, pre-ordained aggression to try and subvert a sovereign democracy. "We simply cannot allow him to succeed." The foreign secretary said she feared the invasion of Ukraine would be a "bloody and long-running conflict" - with consequences felt far beyond Ukraine itself. She said the UK "will need to do more [and] spend more" - citing the unprecedented sanctions announced by the government earlier this week, and Saturday's decision by the EU, US and their allies to cut off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift. "The aim is to degrade the Russian economy - to stop the money Putin has used to fund his war machine," she said. She said the UK government had compiled a "hit list" of Russian billionaires and said there would be a "rolling programme of sanctions" against individual oligarchs. "We will be targeting oligarchs' private jets, we will be targeting their properties, we will be targeting other possessions that they have - and there will be nowhere to hide," said Ms Truss. Ms Truss acknowledged that there was likely to be an "economic cost" to the UK "in terms of access to oil and gas markets" - and a likely rise in the cost of living, with the conflict expected to drive energy and fuel prices even higher. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
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| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-02-28 14:34 |