The sanctions net around Russia is tightening — but there is scope to do more
Reported by TOM KEATINGE In February 2022, I compared the UK’s first round of sanctions against Russia and the Putin regime to taking a peashooter to a gunfight. The threat of sanctions failed to deter Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and their early imposition was slow and lacked bite. Western leaders were initially poor at articulating […]