The sanctions are designed to damage Vladimir Putin’s military supply chain (Image: AP)
Britain has targeted Moscow’s military supply chain in a new sanctions blitz to degrade ’s barbaric war machine.
New targets include ships in the Russian president’s shadow fleet and North Korean generals who have been involved in deploying thousands of troops to support ’s invasion of .
The tough sanctions come on the third anniversary of the war.
The Foreign Office said the measures will target 107 “entities” in and other countries that have supported Putin’s military machine.
Another 40 ships in the dictator’s so-called “shadow fleet” carrying Russian oil have been designated.
Russian defence minister Andrei Belousov meets North Korea’s No Kwang Chol (Image: Russian Defence Ministry/AFP via)
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North Korean defence minister No Kwang Chol and other generals and senior officials involved in deploying soldiers to have been sanctioned.
There are also 13 Russian targets, including Marat Mustafaev and his company LLC Grant-Trade, which the Government says has funnelled advanced European technology into to support the war.
The sanctions target Russian billionaire Roman Trotsenko and Kyrgyzstan-based OJSC Keremet Bank.
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Producers and suppliers of machine tools, electronics and dual-use goods for ’s military in third countries have also been listed. They include Central Asian states, Turkey, Thailand, India and China – the largest supplier of critical goods for ’s military.