Boris Johnson rolls out ‘largest’ economic sanctions ever against Russia

Published February 24, 2022 8:30pm ET



British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Russia would be facing the “largest” set of economic sanctions ever seen in response to the full-scale invasion launched against Ukraine.

Johnson labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “blood-stained aggressor,” saying that he will “never be able to cleanse the blood of Ukraine from his hands” while announcing a long list of sanctions aimed at freezing assets from Russian banks and ending the use of the SWIFT international payment system, the Guardian reported.

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