UK to sanction Russia 'hard' - PM Johnson

"This is, I should stress, just the first barrage of UK economic sanctions against Russia, because we expect I'm afraid that there is more Russian irrational behavior to come," said Johnson.

Johnson said he would set out the sanctions in the House of Commons on Tuesday (February 22).

The sanctions, Johnson said, would be "targeted not just at entities in Donbass and Luhansk and Donetsk, but in Russia itself - targeting Russian economic interests as hard as we can.