The UK’s Surrender of Chagos is a Symptom of Strategic Ineptitude

Chloe Cina, international sanctions expert and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) fellow said: “Investing in a new specialist unit to issue guidance, grant licences, and enforce certain trade sanctions across 21 UK regimes is compelling evidence that the novel measures introduced as part of the UK’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are here to stay.

The Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Jonathan Reynolds MP, noted that “sanctions are vital in defunding Putin’s illegal war and only by working hand in hand with business can we make them as effective as possible.” While, Chloe Cina, international sanctions expert and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) fellow, added: “Investing in a new specialist unit to issue guidance, grant licences, and enforce certain trade sanctions across 21 UK regimes is compelling evidence that the novel measures introduced as part of the UK’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are here to stay.”

Moreover, the war has also been brought home to Russia since the Kursk incursion in August, wherein Ukraine now occupies some 900 square kilometres in this region inside Russia. However, the use of drones in this North-Eastern region of the theatre are also present, according to Nick Reynolds, a research fellow in land warfare, Royal United Services Institute.