Ukraine crisis: UK considering further military deployments and ‘unprecedented’ sanctions – as it happened
by Oliver Holmes from World news | The Guardian on (#5VKT6)
British foreign secretary Liz Truss says those in and around the Kremlin will have nowhere to hide'
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The US and the UK, home to leading financial centres, are clearly gearing up to announce a coordinated effort to target members of the Russian elite with economic sanctions if the Kremlin orders an invasion of Ukraine.
The language from today's US briefing - that economic sanctions will target Russian elite members in or near the inner circles of the Kremlin" - is almost identical to that used by British foreign secretary Liz Truss on Sunday.
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