After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain intended to increase economic pressure on Russia, adopting new anti-Russian sanctions every week.

“Together with our partners, we will increase economic pressure on Russia. We will continue to intensify sanctions against the Russian Federation each week. Not only will we freeze assets or impose sanctions on oligarchs, we will refuse to use Russian hydrocarbons, “Johnson quoted TASS as saying.

He also noted that the United Kingdom is ready to provide Ukraine with all necessary “economic and defense military support”.

“The United Kingdom and its partners provide equipment, technology, know-how, intelligence so that Ukraine is never attacked again, so that Ukraine is so protected that it cannot be ridiculed, so that it cannot be blackmailed, so that it cannot be threatened,” he said. British Prime Minister. The minister said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said that the Ukrainian authorities hope for a key role for the United Kingdom in providing security guarantees.

“Peace agreements should provide an effective guarantee mechanism for our country. We expect London to play a key role in this process, “said Zelensky.

Boris Johnson had previously said that Britain had decided to send 120 armored vehicles and anti-ship missile systems to Ukraine. Western sanctions against Russia, as well as its retaliatory measures, have hit the economies of Western countries themselves. In Britain, therefore, the greatest decline in living standards has begun since the 1950s. A possible disruption of Russian gas supplies threatens to plunge Germany into the biggest crisis since 1945. The German media believe that the West itself does not have to withstand harsh sanctions against Russia.

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Important! In the conditions of the “special military operation”, it is not possible to verify the information about what is happening in Ukraine, which is also disseminated by the official representatives of the conflicting parties, as well as their political statements.