Liz Truss has announced that 386 Russian politicians have been sanctioned following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
All are members of the Russian Duma, the lower house of the country's parliament, and voted to recognise the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as "independent".
The UK has banned them from travelling to the UK, as well as from accessing assets held in Britain or doing business in the country.
Ms Truss said: "We're targeting those complicit in Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine and those who support this barbaric war. We will not let up the pressure and will continue to tighten the screw on the Russian economy through sanctions.
"Together with our allies, we stand firmly beside our Ukrainian friends. We will continue to support Ukraine with humanitarian aid, defensive weapons and diplomatic work to isolate Russia internationally."
It comes a day after a ￡15bn sanctions hit on oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich.
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Problems with the Army’s vibrating Ajax tanks may never be resolved, a report from the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned, writes Dominic Nicholls, our Defence Editor:
In a scathing report, the National Audit Office (NAO) said that the ￡5.5 billion project was “flawed from the start”, and that the Ministry of Defence failed to understand the scale and complexity of the work it was undertaking.
It added that delays to the programme, which is already more than four years behind schedule, could now jeopardise plans to restructure the Army around a new generation of digitally enabled armoured fighting vehicles.
Gareth Davies, the head of the NAO, said: “A series of failures have led to delays and unresolved safety issues that will have a significant impact on the Army’s ability to use the vehicles.”
Ministers publicly acknowledged last year that the programme was in trouble. They included problems with excessive noise and vibration, which have left dozens of troops needing urgent hearing assessments after taking part in trials on the vehicles.
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Liz Truss has sanctioned 386 members of the Russian Duma for their support for the Ukrainian breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the Foreign Office has said.
Foreign Secretary said: "We’re targeting those complicit in Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and those who support this barbaric war.
"We will not let up the pressure and will continue to tighten the screw on the Russian economy through sanctions.
"Together with our allies, we stand firmly beside our Ukrainian friends. We will continue to support Ukraine with humanitarian aid, defensive weapons and diplomatic work to isolate Russia internationally."
Louisa Rolfe, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner said: "We are considering the judgment very carefully before deciding whether to appeal the court's decision.
"Consideration of an appeal is in no way indicative that the Met do not consider such protections to be of the utmost importance."
Online classroom Oak National will roll out translated versions of its lessons in Ukrainian and Russian for newly-arrived refugee pupils.
Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary told the Association of School and College Leaders: "We have a team that's ready and already making plans for a capacity of 100,000 Ukrainian children that will come in to take places now."
"To support schools' efforts, I asked the Oak National academy to roll out an auto-translate function across all 10,000 of its online lessons," he said.
"And I can share with you today that they have delivered on this, meaning that Ukrainian children arriving in the United Kingdom can access education in their native language."
In a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice on behalf of the four women who organised the vigil, their solicitor Theodora Middleton said: "Today's judgment is a victory for women.
"Last March, women's voices were silenced. Today's judgment conclusively shows that the police were wrong to silence us.
"The decisions and actions by the Met Police in the run-up to the planned vigil for Sarah Everard last year were unlawful and the judgment sets a powerful precedent for protest rights.
"We came together one year and one day ago to organise a vigil on Clapham Common because Sarah Everard went missing from our neighbourhood. We felt sad and afraid.
"We were angry that women still weren't safe and we were tired of the burden to stay safe always weighing on our shoulders."
The Metropolitan Police breached the rights of organisers of a vigil for Sarah Everard with its handling of the planned event, High Court judges have ruled.
More to follow.
The trial of a former SNP MP accused of embezzling more than ￡25,000 from two pro-independence groups will start next month.
Ex-MP Natalie McGarry did not appear at a short hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday where Sheriff Tom Hughes said her trial would begin on April 4.
The 40-year-old has previously entered not guilty pleas to the charges she faces.
McGarry is accused of misappropriating ￡21,000 for her own use in her role as treasurer of the Women for Independence group between April 26 2013 and November 30 2015.
Leo Docherty said: "We know that Russia’s illegal invasion has rightly brought out strong feelings of support for the Ukrainian people.
"Veterans always step up in times of need, but they must channel their skills, experience and passion into legal routes of support for Ukraine and not engage in the conflict.
"There are many ways that we all can support the people of Ukraine, including through donating money to charity."
Led by Maria Zakharova, a steely group of media-savvy mouthpieces have become the president’s weapon of choice in his propaganda war, writes Ed Cumming:
You can read his full piece here.
Douglas Ross has defended his decision to withdraw his demand for Boris Johnson to resign over the partygate saga.
Mr Ross said "anything else just seems trivial" compared with the war in Ukraine, saying he would support the Government in its efforts to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion.
Fuel prices have hit a new record high. Figures from data firm Experian Catalist show the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Thursday was 161.1p, up from 159.6p on Wednesday.
The average cost of a litre of diesel reached a new high of 170.1p on Thursday, up from 167.4p on Wednesday.
Harriet Harman, the former Labour deputy leader has said that the party has a "woman problem" because it has never elected a female leader.
In an interview with Sky News she said: "We've certainly got a woman problem in terms of never having a woman leader, which is downright embarrassing,"
"Next time we do need a woman leader."
The UN has announced there are now 2.5 million refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees tweeted: "The number of refugees from Ukraine - tragically - has reached today 2.5 million.
"We also estimate that about two million people are displaced inside Ukraine.
"Millions forced to leave their homes by this senseless war."
Good morning. The British public are set to be asked to take in tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine as the Russian invasion intensifies.
On Thursday night, Russian forces were reported to have struck Lutsk military airfield in Volyn while residents of Kyiv were woken to the sound of air raid sirens.
Here's what you missed overnight – and you can follow the latest news in our liveblog and listen to the latest episode of our daily Ukraine podcast.
You can read all about the main developments from Ukraine here.
On the cost of living crisis and what action the Government may be taking, Chris Philp told Times Radio: "Clearly, both the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the business secretary are very carefully studying the implications of what is happening in Eastern Europe on cost of living.
"I know the energy secretary is looking at what we can do to address any energy price issue. That work is underway, as we speak. And as you said, the Chancellor's Spring Statement is coming up shortly. He'll be looking at this very closely as well. I don't want to preempt the results of either of those two things."
When asked if he or any member of the cabinet would open their doors to refugees, Chris Philp would not comment.
“Once the details are published in the very near future everybody will have a look at that and see if their personal circumstances allow them to, and I’m sure the British public will look at that," he told Sky News
When asked if a suitable buyer can be found, whether the Government will let Chelsea be sold, Mr Philp said: “Yes. As the licence conditions are written today, the sale would not be allowed.
"However if a buyer emerged, then it would be open for that buyer or that football club to approach the Government and ask for the licence conditions to be varied in a way that would allow the sale to take place.
“No proposal would be accepted which saw the proceeds of any sale ending up in an unrestricted bank account owned by Abramovich, he can’t benefit from the proceeds of any sale."
Simon Williams, fuel spokesman for the RAC, told BBC Radio 4 on Friday: "We know from our long-term research that eight in 10 drivers would struggle to be without their car, so having access to a car in a pandemic has also become more important, and so it's really quite tough now."
"The cost of filling up is over ￡88 for petrol and ￡92 for diesel," he said, adding that the pandemic had already caused prices to rise.
He said the RAC is calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to take action, adding: "One thing he could do is reduce VAT on petrol and diesel.
"At the moment, just the VAT, which is of course called a tax on a tax, is bringing 26 pence per litre so, bringing that back to 15% would instantly cut it by about six pence per litre."
Chris Philp, the technology minister, said: "I just say respectfully to the Chelsea fans, I know he's done a lot for the club, but the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and what the Russian regime are doing to civilians - shelling maternity hospitals and shooting civilians who are fleeing down humanitarian corridors - and that is more important than football."
Sharing its daily update on the situation in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence said that "Russia is likely seeking to reset and re-posture its forces for renewed offensive activity in the coming days. This will probably include operations against the capital Kyiv."
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned of a "very, very serious situation" as production of certain crops plummet due to rising gas prices.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, NFU president Minette Batters said:"I think the impact is being felt most harshly, if you like, in the protected crop sectors, so that's aubergines, peppers, cucumbers.
"We're already seeing massive contraction because, for these businesses, really 50% of their costs are reliant on the price of gas."
Ms Batters said farmers have been "talking about going from 80 million cucumbers to 35 million, 100 million peppers to 15 million.
The digital minister said that Ukrainian citizens and soldiers had “every right to defend their homeland, to defend their cities and their towns, to defend their hospitals against this aggression by Russia.
“To be honest, if somebody was attacking Croydon, the place I represent, if somebody was bombing Croydon university hospital, I tell you what, I would be in the streets defending my hospital, I’d be in the streets defending my town and my neighbours, as the Ukrainians are quite rightly doing.”
Chris Philp said that Russia blocking social media websites was part of its disinformation campaign to “lie to the Russian people, because if they realised the full extent of the atrocities being committed by Putin in their name, they would be extremely angry," he told Sky News.
“That’s why Putin is trying to hide that from his own population."
Chris Philp, the digital minister, is on the morning round speaking about Ukraine, following government sanctions on Roman Abramovich, and the opening up of a new route for refugees.
Elsewhere in Westminster the House of Commons is not sitting, but the House of Lords is holding three debates on law enforcement after brexit, the electoral system, and digital technology.
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