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The U.K. is imposing a raft of caller sanctions against Russia, including connected tankers that transport Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), successful a bid to unit Moscow into halting the war against Ukraine, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced arsenic a peculiar G7 acme league got nether mode connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026).
G7 Summit Day 1 updates connected June 16, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is attending the acme of 7 starring satellite powers successful the French edifice municipality of Evian-les-Bains, with allies looking to tilt the equilibrium successful Kyiv's favour aft implicit 4 years of warfare and intensify unit connected Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Working with our G7 allies, we volition proceed to summation the unit connected Putin and his ellipse of collaborators until Russia's warfare instrumentality is brought to a halt and bid returns to our continent," said Mr. Starmer.
The talks are taking spot aft a Russian barrage of missiles and drones aboriginal connected Monday (June 15, 2026) killed astatine slightest 11 radical crossed Ukraine and sparked a occurrence astatine 1 of the astir important Orthodox monasteries successful the capital.
Seventy caller sanctions actions "will choke Russia's warfare effort crossed aggregate fronts" by targeting Russia's illicit “shadow fleet”, subject procurement proviso concatenation and concern networks utilized to circumvent sanctions, Mr. Starmer's bureau said.
The actions against the alleged "shadow fleet" — utilized by Russia to transport vigor and different assets nether a antithetic emblem — people much than 20 lipid tankers.
Mr. Starmer's bureau said the United Kingdom is present the archetypal G7 state to authorisation respective LNG vessels precocious acquired by Russia to work an already sanctioned Arctic LNG project.
The British premier — nether unit astatine location aft his Defence Minister resigned successful a enactment implicit subject spending past week — is to archer leaders astatine the league that "the G7 should collectively spell further to guarantee Ukraine secures the conscionable and lasting bid it deserves".
Mr. Starmer's bureau besides announced a woody to nonstop enriched uranium to substance Ukrainian atomic powerfulness stations which would "power Ukraine for the adjacent 2 years".
Some £210 cardinal ($282 million) worthy of export concern volition let the U.K.-based Urenco to proviso enriched uranium to Ukraine's atomic powerfulness producer, Energoatom, it said.
