Britain is giving Ukraine 35 million pounds (more than 44 million dollars) in emergency aid. Britain has also put 20 ships and two companies from Russia on the sanctions list. This is reported by the British government, reports UNN.
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The UK is reportedly providing £35 million to help Ukraine restore the energy system and support the most vulnerable in the third winter of the war.
The £20 million will support repairs to Ukraine's energy system, additional generating capacity and critical protection of energy infrastructure. In particular, it will fund a project to generate an additional 20 MW of electricity to power up to 20,000 homes.
A further £15 million will go towards providing vital humanitarian aid to those most in need as temperatures plummet in Ukraine. Of this, £5 million will go to UNICEF to provide essentials. A further £10 million will be allocated through UNHCR to provide over 21,000 families with rapid insulation kits, home repairs and extra cash payments for winter, as well as generators and home insulation support for WPOs.
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The country is also imposing new sanctions against the Russian energy sector. Today's sanctions target 20 vessels in the shadow fleet carrying illegal Russian oil, including Ocean Faye, Andaman Skies and Mianzimu, which carried more than four million barrels of Russian oil each in 2024.
The key companies that support Putin's oil trade - 2Rivers DMCC and 2Rivers PTE LTD - have also fallen under sanctions
These new measures will further empty Putin's war chest, reducing the oil revenues he so desperately needs to fuel his illegal war, and will put those who provide Russian oil exports on notice.
In total, the UK has already imposed sanctions against more than 100 vessels carrying Russian energy products, including 93 oil tankers.
Now Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Finland and Estonia, as well as the UK, have agreed to work together to check suspicious shadow vessels on the Baltic coast to hold the shadow ships and those who facilitate them accountable for the risks they pose and the support they provide to the russian war machine.