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Energy Minister Michael Shanks says the government will not reverse sanctions on Russian oil despite President Trump's U-turn Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We've set out as a government that sanctions on Russian oil are a really important part of how we help
00:06support Ukraine in their fight against the Russian aggressions.
00:09So the UK will not be changing its position on sanctions. They're an important part of that.
00:13What we absolutely want to avoid is Putin and the Kremlin thinking that this conflict in the Middle East is
00:18an opportunity for his beleaguered economy to somehow improve.
00:21That's absolutely not what we want to see. So we will keep our sanctions in place.
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