UK wants more sanctions against Russia, as Vladimir Putin makes the world ‘a more dangerous place’
Foreign minister Jeremy Hunt says the UK will ask its allies to call on the EU to ensure its sanctions against Russia are comprehensive
London — On Tuesday, the UK will call for the EU to increase sanctions against Russia, saying the bloc had to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the US, which hit Moscow with new economic curbs earlier in August. Britain’s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, will say that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the world "a more dangerous place", and that after a chemical weapons attack in England, the EU should apply more pressure to ensure Russia sticks to international rules. "Today the UK asks its allies to go further by calling on the EU to ensure its sanctions against Russia are comprehensive, and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the US," Hunt will tell an audience in Washington in his first major speech since his appointment in July. "That means calling out and responding to transgressions with one voice whenever and wherever they occur, from the streets of Salisbury to the fate of Crimea." Britain, the EU, and the US blame Russia for a nerve agent attack against a R...
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