UK - Russia relations

Former commander of the UK’s Royal Tank Regiment

21 Mar 2023 5 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 year ago

“The United Kingdom… announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine but also shells with depleted uranium. If this happens, Russia will be forced to react. If all this happens, Russia will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component.”

President of Russia

21 Mar 2023 5 3

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“There are some around the world...who say that we're better off making accommodations with tyranny.... I believe they are profoundly wrong. To try to renormalize relations with Putin after this, as we did in 2014, would be to make exactly the same mistake again, and that is why Putin must fail. This is a turning point for the world and it's a moment of choice. It's a choice between freedom and oppression.”

UK Prime Minister

19 Mar 2022 3 4

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“Putin should take note. We will not rest until he fails in Ukraine and the country's sovereignty is restored. Putin must lose, because the consequences if he doesn't are huge. So we will keep strengthening our response, replacing doubt with determination, and complacency with conviction. We must never let our guard down again. We will be tough - not because we want conflict, but because we want to prevent it. Be tough, get peace.”

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British Foreign Secretary

10 Mar 2022 4 3

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“Today's sanctions show once again that oligarchs and kleptocrats have no place in our economy or society. With their close links to Putin they are complicit in his aggression. The blood of the Ukrainian people is on their hands. They should hang their heads in shame.”

British Foreign Secretary

10 Mar 2022 6 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“In another economic blow to the Putin regime following their illegal invasion of Ukraine, the UK will move away from dependence on Russian oil throughout this year, building on our severe package of international economic sanctions. Working with industry, we are confident that this can be achieved over the course of the year, providing enough time for companies to adjust and ensuring consumers are protected.”

UK Prime Minister

08 Mar 2022 6 5

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“Sanctions would hit very very hard, and could include restrictions on Russian businesses' access to the dollar and the pound. We have to accept at the moment that (Russian President) Vladimir Putin is possibly thinking illogically about this and doesn't see the disaster ahead.”

UK Prime Minister

20 Feb 2022 4 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“You've got about 130,000 troops massing on the Ukrainian border. This is a very, very dangerous, difficult situation. We are on the edge of a precipice but there is still time for President Putin to step back.”

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UK Prime Minister

14 Feb 2022 5 3

Sergei Shoigu

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unfortunately, the level of our cooperation is close to zero and about to cross the zero meridian and go into negative, which is undesirable.”

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Russian Defence Minister

11 Feb 2022 3 2

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“I can't see any other reason for having 100,000 troops stationed on the border, apart from to threaten Ukraine. And if Russia is serious about diplomacy, they need to remove those troops and desist from the threats.”

British Foreign Secretary

10 Feb 2022 4 3

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 2 years ago

“I'm honestly disappointed that what we have is a conversation between a dumb and a deaf person...Our most detailed explanations fell on unprepared soil. They say Russia is waiting until the ground freezes like a stone so its tanks can easily cross into Ukrainian territory. I think the ground was like that today with our British colleagues, from which numerous facts that we produced bounced off.”

Russian Foreign Minister

10 Feb 2022 3 3

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“I honestly don't think a decision has yet been taken. But that doesn't mean that it is impossible that something absolutely disastrous could happen very soon indeed. This is probably the most dangerous moment, I would say, in the course of the next few days, in what is the biggest security crisis that Europe has faced for decades, and we've got to get it right. And I think that the combination of sanctions and military resolve, plus diplomacy is what is in order.”

UK Prime Minister

10 Feb 2022 6 4

James Kariuki

Inserted 2 years ago

“In 2014, Russia denied to this council the presence of its forces in Crimea. In reality, its soldiers were annexing part of an independent, democratic Ukraine. Today, Russia denies that its forces are posing a threat to Ukraine. But yet again we see disinformation, cyberattacks and destabilising plots directed against an independent, democratic country.”

UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

31 Jan 2022 5 3

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“What the legislation enables us to do is hit a much wider variety of targets. So there can be nobody who thinks that they will be immune to those sanctions. Any company of interest to the Kremlin and the regime in Russia would be able to be targeted so there will be nowhere to hide for Putin's oligarchs, for Russian companies involved in propping up the Russian state.”

British Foreign Secretary

30 Jan 2022 6 2

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“We'll be bringing forward new legislation to make our sanctions regime tougher so we are able to target more companies and individuals in Russia. We will be bringing that forward in the next few days.”

British Foreign Secretary

26 Jan 2022 3 3

Malcolm Chalmers

Inserted 2 years ago

“The U.K. is differentiating itself from Germany and France, and to some extent, even the U.S. That comes out of Brexit, and the sense that we have to define ourselves as an independent middle power.”

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Deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London

23 Jan 2022 5 2

Dominic Raab

Inserted 2 years ago

“There'll be very serious consequences if Russia takes this move to try and invade but also install a puppet regime.”

UK foreign minister

23 Jan 2022 3 3

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“The information being released today shines a light on the extent of Russian activity designed to subvert Ukraine, and is an insight into Kremlin thinking. Russia must de-escalate, end its campaigns of aggression and disinformation, and pursue a path of diplomacy.”

British Foreign Secretary

23 Jan 2022 5 3

Liz Truss

Inserted 2 years ago

“Any Russian incursion would be a massive strategic mistake and would be met with strength, including coordinated sanctions with our allies to impose a severe cost on Russia's interests and economy.”

British Foreign Secretary

23 Dec 2021 4 3

Ben Wallace

Inserted 2 years ago

“Russian concerns about NATO encirclement made little sense. Only 6 percent of the Russian land border is bordered by NATO countries - that's hardly being surrounded by NATO.”