I don't understand why these sanctions on Russia weren't imposed 3 years ago

[muriel_volestrangler]

There would have been a case for imposing sanctions like this in 2014, but the pretence then was that it was not an official Russian invasion of Crimea, so formal sanctions weren't looked at. But this is the kind of stuff I thought we'd already applied:

The UK and Europe have announced major sanctions against Russia as it became clear that Monday’s call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had failed to deliver any meaningful concessions from Moscow.
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The UK said its sanctions would target dozens of entities “supporting Russia’s military machine, energy exports and information war, as well as financial institutions helping to fund Putin’s invasion of Ukraine”.
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Shortly afterwards the EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the EU had approved sanctions targeting Russia’s shadow fleet of about 200 vessels and that more sanctions were in the pipeline. “The longer Russia wages war, the tougher our response,” she said.

Western countries imposed an embargo on Russia’s oil industry after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and banned services for ships transporting Russian crude. In response, Moscow began relying on a so-called shadow fleet - tankers with murky ownership and often without proper insurance - to continue exports
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Trump had indicated on Monday following his call with Putin that the US was not ready to join European sanctions efforts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/sanctions-russia-uk-europe-putin-trump-call

When they talked about extra sanctions, I thought that meant going after 3rd party countries that were still trading with Russia (eg China and India), not "tankers with murky ownership and often without proper insurance" - those should have been sanctioned for 3 years.