Electronics firms and ‘shadow fleet’ carrying oil among targets as UK foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, travels to Ukraine
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The UK government has implemented 100 new sanctions designed to hit Russia’s revenues and military supplies, including against its so-called shadow fleet carrying oil and electronics companies.
The move announced by the UK foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, as she travels to Kyiv, comes as Vladimir Putin continues to obstruct peace efforts by launching the largest air attack of the war against Ukraine, with more than 800 missiles and drones fired in a single night.
The numbers of Russian drones and missiles launched against Ukraine – 6,500 in July alone – are 10 times the level of a year ago, with recent strikes directly hitting the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers, damaging the British Council and EU delegation buildings in Kyiv and a violation of Nato airspace over Poland.
