This Thursday, the prime minister of the United KingdomBoris Johnson, reported that they closed the airspace to the Russian Aeroflot in retaliation after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
In that sense, Aeroflot – a member of the international SkyTeam alliance with Air France-KLM – will no longer be able to fly to the UK.
Johnson added that he also the assets of banking groups and arms manufacturers were frozen, and five other Russian tycoons were sanctioned after the geopolitical conflict broke out.
Among the frozen banks is VTB, one of the most relevant in Russia.
“(The new measures) will allow us to completely exclude Russian banks from the British financial sector, which is of course the largest in Europe,” Boris Johnson stressed.
Such restrictions will also prevent public and private companies from raising funds in the UK and thus limit the amount of money Russians can have in their bank accounts on British soil.
Finally, Johnson announced that a new law will be introduced that will target technology exports to Russia, which “will reduce Russian military, industrial and technological capabilities in the coming years.”
Source: AFP
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