EVIAN, France: The UK is imposing a raft of new sanctions against Russia, including on tankers that transport LNG, in a bid to pressure Moscow into halting the war against Ukraine, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced as a special G7 summit session got underway Tuesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is attending the summit of seven leading world powers in the French resort town of Evian-les-Bains, with allies looking to tilt the balance in Kyiv’s favor after over four years of war and intensify pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

G7 told ‘we will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes’, with Russia’s finance networks and shadow fleet targeted

The prime minister, who set out the plans as he arrived in France for the G7 summit, warned that Putin’s ‘aggression threatens not just Ukraine, but the security of all Europe’