As Western countries prepare to impose a new round of sanctions later, the prime minister denounced Russia’s most outspoken denunciation following reports of mass graves and killings of civilians in liberated and abandoned cities around Kyiv. This was done as the European Union moved to freeze a share of Russia’s energy revenues from gas and oil imports to Europe to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Johnson says Russian activity “does not seem far from genocide” According to the EU sanctions plan, part of the total revenue, amounting to 19 billion euros from the Russian invasion, will be diverted by Russian energy companies to a special “guarantee” bank account.
