UK Imposes Biggest Sanctions Package on Russian 'Shadow Fleet'

• Britain is imposing the biggest sanctions package against Russia's shadow fleet, targeting 30 vessels, according to foreign minister David Lammy on Monday. Lammy urged G7 allies to stand with and equip Ukraine for as long as it needs.
• Britain and other Western nations are keen to ensure Ukraine is in the strongest possible position to defend itself this winter. Lammy said before a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Italy he was sure Kyiv (the capital and most populous city of Ukraine) would get "the funds and the military equipment and kit to get through 2025".
• "We are determined to ensure that both the ships, the enablers of those ships thwarting European and UK sanctions are hurt at this time," he said. Britain assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin showed "no signs at all of wanting a negotiation" to end its war with Ukraine, he added.
• Publishing details of the sanctions, Britain said the ships being targeted had transported billions of pounds worth of oil and oil products in the last year, and the new measures would bring the number of oil tankers under UK sanctions to 73.

(Source: Reuters)