Boris Johnson has issued a direct message to the Russian people by posting a video on social media as he called for the crisis to come to an end.
In Russian the Prime Minister told countrymen: "I do not believe this war is in your name." He described the scenes in Ukraine as "nothing short of a tragedy" and said the UK stood in solidarity with citizens their in the face of an "unjustifiable assault on their homeland".
But he said the invasion of Ukraine was also a tragedy for Russia as Vladimir Putin 's actions were leading to "complete isolation" of the country from the international community, as well as economic burden and needless lives lost.
Mr Johnson announced earlier that the UK will introduce personal sanctions against the Russian President and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov "imminently".
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