UK warns Russia of severe sanctions if it puts 'puppet regime' in Ukraine

 Britain made the accusation late on Saturday, also saying Russian intelligence officers had been in contact with a number of former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for an invasion

Russia will face severe economic sanctions if it installs a puppet regime in Ukraine, a senior British minister said on Sunday after the UK accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a pro-Russian leader there. “There’ll be very serious consequences if Russia takes this move to try and invade but also install a puppet regime,” British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told Sky News.

Britain made the accusation late on Saturday, also saying Russian intelligence officers had been in contact with a number of former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for an invasion. The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed the British allegation as “disinformation,” accusing NATO of “escalating tensions” over Ukraine. The British claims came after the top U.S. and Russian diplomats failed on Friday to make a major breakthrough in talks to resolve the crisis over Ukraine, which was sparked when Russia began massing troops near its border with the country.

Officials in Moscow have insisted they have no plans to invade, and both they and their American counterparts have agreed to keep talking. But tension remains high. In Washington, the U.S. State Department announced it was ordering the departure of eligible family members from Embassy Kyiv due to the threat of Russian military action.

41 feared dead after Russian passenger plane crash-lands in Moscow: Report

Another 11 people were injured, said Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow region’s health minister

International News: Forty-one individuals including somewhere around two youngsters are accepted to have kicked the bucket when a Russian traveler plane made a crisis arrival and was overwhelmed on fire at Moscow’s busiest air terminal Sunday, examiners said. Dramatic film shared via web-based networking media demonstrated Aeroflot’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 airplane, land at Sheremetyevo universal air terminal, blazes and dark smoke pouring from its fuselage.

Travelers could be seen jumping onto an inflatable slide at the front and running from the blasting plane as tremendous dark segments of smoke surged into the sky. “There were 78 individuals including group individuals on board the plane,” the Investigative Committee said in an announcement, adding it had gone to the northwest Russian city of Murmansk.

“As indicated by the refreshed information which the examination has starting at now, 37 individuals endure.” Another 11 individuals were harmed, Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow area’s wellbeing pastor said before in the day. Three of them had been hospitalized yet they were not in a genuine condition, he included. Specialists said they were investigating different lines of request and it was untimely to reach any inferences about the reason for the mishap.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had offered his sympathies to the exploited people’s friends and family, his representative Dmitry Peskov said. Head administrator Dmitry Medvedev has likewise requested an extraordinary council to examine the debacle. The stream conveying 73 travelers and five team individuals had quite recently left Sheremetyevo when the group issued a pain flag, authorities said. “Flight Su-1492 took off on timetable at 6:02 pm (15H02 GMT),” said an announcement from the airplane terminal…