announced fresh economic sanctions on russia, calling it the largest and most severe package it has ever faced. these include. freezing the assets of all major russian banks and excluding them from the uk financial system. 100 companies and individuals will face financial sanctions, including several oligarchs and russia s biggest defence company. the exportation of military equipment and oil refinery goods will be suspended. and the russian airline, aeroflot has been banned from landing in the uk. this morning, russia has banned british airlines from landing in the country. let s speak to sir tony brenton, former british ambassador to moscow. so, today it would appear that russian troops are advancing on the capital of ukraine. i mean, is it inevitable now that president putin takes over ukraine and installs his own puppet leader? i am installs his own puppet leader? i am not a installs his own puppet leader? i am rrot a military installs his own puppet leader? i am not a military
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ukraine as they defend their country. meanwhile ukraine and russia resumed virtual talks on ending almost three weeks of fighting, with both sides signalling some progress. here s a tweet from a senior ukrainian negotiator, saying negotiations are ongoing, with consultations on issues including a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from ukrainian territory . well, here s the assessment on the apparent progress of the negotiations of sir tony brenton, a former uk ambassador to russia: the campaign is going more slowly than we would ve hoped and the russian army is turning into increasingly brutal bombardment of civilian areas is way of civilian areas is with achieving such progress as it is and as far as i can see, speaking slower and slower progress, they have not taken a major city since the beginning of the war which encouragingly commits a very bad war and that s a very nasty things are happening and really worse things could happen, but encouragingly, that means the
well, here s the assessment on the apparent progress of the negotiations of sir tony brenton, a former uk ambassador to russia. obviously the campaign is going much more slowly than they initially hoped. and the russian army, in the way that it does, is turning to increasingly brutal bombardment of civilian areas as a way of achieving such progress as it is. and actually, as far as i can see, it s making slower and slower progress. they haven t taken a major city since the beginning of the war which encouragingly, i mean, it s a very bad war and lots of very nasty things are happening, and even worse good things could happen but encouragingly, that means the russians are first of all, looking to their home front, they have strengthened control on the information and other things in russia itself not that i think it s a very significant threat there, the latest polls show 60% of the russian populace support for the war. but also, they are engaged in negotiations not very success
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