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PM Addresses Nation On Ukraine, 'Massive Package Of Sanctions' Coming

UK

PM Boris Johnson makes address on Ukraine:

  • "'Our worst fears have now come true and all our warnings have proved tragically accurate...President Putin has unleashed war on our continent'
  • 'Ukraine is a country that for decades has enjoyed freedom and democracy'...We cannot allow that freedom just to be snuffed out...We cannot and will not look away'
  • "This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure I say to the people of Russia I cannot believe this is being done in your name I say to the Ukrainians we are with you. We are praying for you and your families"
  • “Today in concert with our allies we will agree a massive package of economic sanctions designed in time to hobble the Russian economy”
  • "We must also collectively cease the dependence on Russian oil and gas that for too long has given Putin his grip on western politics"
  • "I say to the people of Russia, whose president has just authorised a tidal wave of violence against a fellow Slavic people ... I cannot believe this is being done in your name or that you really want the pariah status it will bring to the Putin regime."

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