All Russian aircrafts and jets have been banned from entering UK air space - and can now be detained and have their passengers arrested if they do so.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced the latest salvo action against Russia this evening after he promised: "We will suffocate Putin's cronies’ ability to continue living as normal while thousands of innocent people die."
In a letter, he wrote: “Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an unprovoked, premeditated attack against a sovereign democratic state.