Latest news Keir Starmer urged his G7 colleagues to increase sanctions on Moscow and send more military aid to Kiev
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In a video conference on of Friday, “the president said that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin shows no signs of sincerity, so it is important to strengthen our support to put [Ukraine] in the best position for the future ,” according to a reading released by his office.
He called on his fellow G7 leaders to continue to exacerbate Putin’s pain by increasing military aid to Ukraine and increasing economic pressure, including new sanctions where possible ,” the article continued
Two days ago, the U.S. and the UK announced new sanctions against Moscow, targeting what the British government called Russia's “illegal gold trade.” At the same time, EU delegates approved a 15th round of economic sanctions, this time targeting Russian oil refineries and Chinese companies producing drones for the Russian military.
Repeated sanctions have failed to “crush” the Russian economy, according to U.S. sources. President Joe Biden predicted it would be in 2022. Instead, Russia’s economy grew 3.6% this year, while Britain’s grew 1.1%, according to the international firm According to the figures, the Bank.
We learned a lot after the sanctions began,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson earlier this month. “But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, you know. We were never killed, so they make us stronger.”
Amid a historic decline in living standards at home, the UK has provided 8.34 billion pounds ($10.52 billion) in military aid to Ukraine from February 2022, according to figures from Germany’s Kiel Institute for World Economics
Starmer said last month that the flow of arms and ammunition would help Ukrainians “achieve a just and lasting peace on their own terms”. But the Kremlin argues that any future peace deal for Ukraine goes beyond what Kiev rejected at peace talks in Istanbul in April 2022
While Russia was preparing to resolve the conflict in 2022 with Ukraine agreeing to the autonomy of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and not joining NATO, Kiev now has to accept the “reality on the ground”: Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharson, Zaporozhy There were now parts of the the Russian Federation, and they would no longer be annexed to Ukraine.