Govt: Sanctions bring Russia’s GRU agents out of the shadows

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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the sanctioning of Russian GRU agents “brings them out of the shadows”. This follows a final report which stated Vladimir Putin bore a “moral responsibility for the death of Dawn Sturgess. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Sanctioning these individuals and their organisations brings them out of the shadows.

00:06It's a message to British companies and organisations that operate across the world

00:10that they should have no dealings with the GRU or with any of these individuals

00:15who we bring out of the shadows.

00:18But more widely, the international sanctions led often by the UK across the world

00:26have had a huge impact on Russia's economy and on the way Russia is able to operate.

00:31But we need to continue to do that because we've seen from this report

00:35the nature of the threat that Russia poses to innocent individuals on British soil

00:42as well as to Ukraine and to other countries across the world.

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