{"id":442966,"date":"2026-02-24T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442966\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:38:15","slug":"uk-announces-largest-sanctions-package-against-russia-since-start-of-full-scale-invasion-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442966\/","title":{"rendered":"UK announces largest sanctions package against Russia since start of full-scale invasion \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"block-ee97d5da-76d9-4150-8808-6c16db236c8e\">Britain is also targeting Russia\u2019s shadow fleet \u2014 oil tankers used to evade sanctions which have been surveilled, intercepted and boarded by the U.K. and its allies. It is sanctioning 48 vessels and 175 companies in Russia\u2019s \u201c2Rivers\u201d illicit oil network \u2014 a move the U.K. Foreign Office said will send a \u201cclear\u201d message that \u201cRussian oil is off the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-1425d3c4-4b4c-4dfa-8f40-7e083432a2d2\">U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is in Kyiv Monday to mark the anniversary of the invasion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-335caed4-5aa7-4057-9512-465011e42056\">She said: &#8220;The UK\u202fhas today taken decisive\u202faction to\u202fdisrupt the\u202fcritical\u202ffinancing, military equipment\u202fand revenue streams that sustain Russia\u2019s aggression, in our largest raft of measures since the early months of the invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain is also targeting Russia\u2019s shadow fleet \u2014 oil tankers used to evade sanctions which have been surveilled,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1340,894,2980,1344,59,57,58,467,151,50,2987,468,154,155,56,157,54,55,159,636,14899,161,20765],"class_list":{"0":"post-442966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oil","19":"tag-payments","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-sanctions","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom","26":"tag-vladimir-putin","27":"tag-war","28":"tag-war-economy","29":"tag-war-in-ukraine","30":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}