UK sanctions 5 Russian banks and 3 Russian "high-net worth individuals"

Boris Johnson has announced sanctions against 5 Russian banks and 3 individuals - Igor Rotenberg, Boris Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko - who have had UK assets frozen and will have entry refused.

The PM said that by recognising separatist regions of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is planning "the pretext for an invasion" of the rest of Ukraine.

“If the worst happens then a European nation of 44 million men, women and children would become the target of full-scale war” PM Boris Johnson says “we must now brace ourselves for the next possible stages of Putin’s plan."