British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that the United Kingdom should continue to “intensify sanctions” against Russia until “each of its troops is outside Ukraine.”
The “Tory” leader appeared before the so-called Liaison Committee of the House of Commons, where he indicated that his government is “no doubt considering raising a march (British) support for Ukrainians while they defend themselves (from the Russians).”
The chief executive of the United Kingdom said that a ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine would not be enough to remove the sanctions imposed on the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The G7 cannot be expected to lift sanctions just because there is a ceasefire,” Johnson told a British parliamentary committee.
“In my opinion, we should continue to intensify sanctions with a continuous program until each of its troops is outside Ukraine,” he said.
Asked whether this would include Moscow-annexed Crimea in 2014, Johnson replied: “As I said, (until) each of these (Russian) troops is outside Ukraine.”
The Prime Minister also expressed the view that “a total rethink should be carried out on all the support we offer to countries like Georgia and Ukraine”, so that instead of offering them full NATO membership, he explained, Western countries would change the “security architecture” by arming them so that Russia would not invade.
The British leader reiterated that “it is not the objective of the British government” to obtain regime change in Moscow and assured that London only intends to “help protect” Ukrainians from the “barbaric” violence of Russian forces.
In addition, the British Government approved on Wednesday a legal instrument prohibiting the provision of technical maintenance services to ships and aircraft owned by Russian oligarchs sanctioned as a result of the invasion of Ukraine or its companies.
London wants to prevent people subject to sanctions “from benefiting from British industries and engineers, world leaders in aviation and the maritime sector,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Foreign Minister Liz Truss said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “and his elite” have been “surprised by the harshness” of the sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom.
“We will continue to increase pressure as long as Russian troops are in Ukraine. Our goal is not only the businesses of the oligarchs, but also their assets and their international lifestyle,” added the head of British diplomacy.
The ministry explained that the new legal instrument has been used “immediately” to punish businessmen Eugene (Yevgeny) Shvidler and Oleg Tinkov, who had already appeared on the British sanctioned lists.
Last week, the Government reported the indefinite seizure of two private Shvidler aircraft at two English airfields.
In parallel to these measures, Foreign Affairs indicated that it will extend the financial and trade sanctions it had already imposed on Crimea to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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