{"id":42965,"date":"2026-02-25T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42965"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:09:48","slug":"uk-announces-biggest-sanctions-package-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/uk-announces-biggest-sanctions-package-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Announces Biggest Sanctions Package Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The UK has announced its largest sanctions package against Russia since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022, in a move aimed at cutting off Moscow&#8217;s critical oil revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The package includes nearly 300 new sanctions targeting Russian energy revenues, particularly oil exports, as well as key suppliers of military equipment that fuel the war effort.<\/p>\n<p>London confirmed that it has so far imposed sanctions on more than 3,000 individuals, entities, and vessels under its Russia sanctions regime.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement coincided with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper&#8217;s visit to Kyiv, and the unveiling of a new support package designed to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The new sanctions target the giant pipeline company PJSC Transneft, which is responsible for transporting more than 80% of Russia\u2019s oil exports, a move expected to further complicate the marketing and distribution of sanctioned Russian crude.<\/p>\n<p>According to the British government, international sanctions have so far deprived Moscow of more than $450 billion, equivalent to funding two additional years of the Russia&#8217;s military operation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has announced its largest sanctions package against Russia since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022, in a move aimed at cutting off Moscow&#8217;s critical oil revenues. The package includes nearly 300 new sanctions targeting Russian energy revenues, particularly oil exports, as well as key suppliers of military equipment that fuel the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42967,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions\/42967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}