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Chelsea sale BARRED after Roman Abramovich added to UK sanctions list but club CAN continue to operate

Roman Abramovich was this morning sanctioned by the UK Government, blocking his immediate plans to sell the European champions and resulting in huge implications for fans.

Evening Standard

Roman Abramovich’s empire in ruins as Chelsea FC owner is hit with sanctions

Chelsea in chaos as Russian oligarch is barred from selling club

Evening Standard

Roman Abramovich decision made by UK government to put sale of Chelsea in doubt

The 55-year-old has been described as a "pro-Kremlin oligarch" who has had ties to Vladimir Putin "for decades"

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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK over ties with Vladimir Putin

The Government document says he has had a “close relationship for decades” with the Russian President

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UK imposes asset freezes on Abramovich, Rosneft boss Sechin

Britain imposed sanctions on Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich and Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russian oil giant Rosneft, hitting them with asset freezes and travel bans because of their links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Reuters

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK government

The government will issue Chelsea Football Club with a special licence to allow them to compete

The Independent UK

Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK over ties with Vladimir Putin

The Government hit the Chelsea owner with an asset freeze after weeks of pressure to act over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Britain issues warning to Russia over use of chemical weapons in Ukraine

Britain warned Vladimir Putin on Thursday that he would risk an “international response” if he uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Evening Standard

Roman Abramovich sanctioned by British government as he tries to sell Chelsea

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, who is in the process of trying to sell the club, has been officially sanctioned by the British government as they take action against Russian Oligarchs

Daily Mirror

Huge queues at Victoria’s Secret as chain closes Russian stores amid war in Ukraine

Huge queues hit Victoria’s Secret stores in Moscow and St Petersburg after the outlet announced it was suspending business in Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Evening Standard

Russia warned NATO could intervene if chemical weapons launched, warns defence minister

Defence Minister James Heappey said previous use of chemical weapons had 'triggered an international response' in a warning to Russia's Vladimir Putin

Daily Mirror

Moscow blames U.S. for "economic war"

"Blanket sanctions against the Russian economy are having an effect"

Salon

Commentary: The false promise of autocracy

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shocked the world. It should not have. Vladimir Putin has been threatening Ukraine for years. To support those threats, Russian media has dutifully featured ludicrous, fabricated tales of Ukrainian misdeeds and even atrocities against beleaguered Russians, and he has asserted that a nation with a Jewish…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: On Kyiv’s edge, a volunteer fighter braces for Putin’s blitz: ‘We will defend every centimeter of our land’

Some of the Ukrainian fighters guarding one of the highways leading into Kyiv have body armor — some don’t. They each are allotted 90 bullets a day from the militia they joined. Their weapons are assault rifles, Molotov cocktails and, as Maksym Skubenko tells us by phone from his fortified…

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Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Why Biden isn’t trying to sound like Churchill

President Joe Biden’s public statement Tuesday morning announcing a U.S. cutoff of Russian oil was an excellent example of how words matter when they come out of presidential mouths — and how multiple audiences complicate the presidency.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Putin’s dangerous nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine

Most Americans view nuclear weapons as a relic of the Cold War. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in 1985 “that a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.” That thinking has remained a “given” for the last 37 years. Unfortunately, Russian President…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: If Putin conquers Ukraine, is Moldova next?

Watching the war in Ukraine, many in the U.S. and elsewhere are hearing for the first time the name of another country, Moldova. But few in the West know much about it, where it is and what its place is in the geopolitics of Europe.

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Boris Johnson says he fears Putin may use chemical weapons in Ukraine – as it happened

PM says Russian claims about enemies getting ready to use chemical weapons echoes what happened before the use of chemical weapons in Syria

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Reuters

Putin ally Chemezov says Russia will be the victor

Sergei Chemezov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said that the military operation in Ukraine had prevented an attack on Russia, which he said would emerge victorious from the sanctions imposed by the West.

The Guardian - UK

US inflation rises to new 40-year high of 7.9%; Abramovich sanctioned by UK – as it happened

ECB raises inflation forecasts, cuts growth outlook amid Ukraine conflict, as stock markets slide and Chelsea FC owner is sanctioned by Britain

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine War: Two Weeks that Changed the World

Russia invaded Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, setting off the worst conflict in Europe in decades. We look back on a fortnight which has shaken the world, AFP said. - Russia invades - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and de-nazify" Ukraine…

Evening Standard

Russia’s shelling of Mariupol maternity hospital is war crime - UK

‘What you see on your TV screens is a war crime,’ said James Heappey

The Guardian - UK

World leaders are afraid to ban Russia’s oil. Ukraine’s only hope is ordinary people

Ministers in Germany, Italy and the UK fear that voters won’t accept rising prices. The public must force their hands, says Oleg Ustenko, an adviser to the president of Ukraine

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Crisis to Dominate EU Leaders' Versailles Summit

EU leaders will scramble Thursday to find ways to urgently address the fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine that has imperiled the bloc's economy and exposed a dire need for a stronger defense. The meeting at the Versailles palace was set to be the high point of France's six-month EU…

The Independent UK

PM pledges to step up sanctions as Truss calls for ‘paradigm shift’

In a speech in the US today, Ms Truss will make comparisons between the Russian president’s actions and September 11.

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