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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Sam Blewett, Patrick Daly, David Hughes and Geraldine Scott & Thomas George

Russia must be hit with maximum level of sanctions, says Liz Truss

Russia must be hit with the “maximum level” of sanctions over the atrocities in Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said as she pressured European allies to go further.

The Cabinet minister today called for more weapons of the type Kyiv has called for to be supplied as she criticised Western money flowing into Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s “war machine”. Ms Truss hit out at the “butchery” and cited evidence of rape and indiscriminate killing of civilians in Bucha, the Ukrainian town where Moscow’s troops have been pushed back from.

Speaking in Warsaw, Poland, she said she had discussed how the UK can take the “maximum approach” to supplying weapons with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.

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