By Dan Sabbagh
the Guardian
February 21, 2022
Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the UK’s emergency Cobra committee on Tuesday morning to sign off a package of sanctions against Russia after its military occupation of the two breakaway states in eastern Ukraine.
The initial signs were that the package would target “those complicit in the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” after Russian troops were ordered to enter the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk for the first time overnight.
Downing St said that Johnson would hold the emergency meeting to discuss the rapidly unfolding crisis — and to agree what a spokesperson said was “a significant package of sanctions to be introduced immediately.”