The sanctions - which are part of a broader government package imposed against six other oligarchs - are expected to apply as long as Abramovich owns the club before being lifted in the event of him selling it.
Three UK's decision to suspend its sponsorship deal with Chelsea sets up a possible wave of corporate boycotts that could see the club deprived of tens of millions of pounds worth of revenue and facing financial meltdown.
Ukrainian servicemen try to help people who have been wounded in Irpin - as an increasingly delusional Putin is insisting that Russia is not bombing Ukrainian cities, despite mounting fears that 100 people are buried under rubble after an apartment block near Kyiv was struck and after a cluster bomb attack on the city of Chernihiv killed 49 earlier this week. A mother and two children were killed and the father was wounded by a mortar shell as hundreds of civilians sought safety
While Sir Tony's view offered much needed encouragement, he told the BBC's Sunday Morning show he feared the violence could get much worse because Russia's tactics were failing and Putin was becoming more desperate.
A Wikipedia-style website has compiled a list of trigger warnings for more than 6,000 books - including classics from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (pictured left, Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, and right, Emma by Jane Austen)
The Russian tycoon would not be allowed to take any of the money from any prospective deal - with the club understood to be up for sale for around £3billion - and it would instead be determined by Downing Street.
'We have become so boring as a city," he said. 'I want to become a city of excitement. We are looking to reinstate every parade, every festival, every block party. People need to get outdoors and enjoy our city again.'
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's deputy Prime Minister, said there can be 'no doubt' the hospital was deliberately 'targeted' by Russia in a chilling echo tactics used during the bombing of the Syrian city of Aleppo while Putin's men were fighting alongside dictator Basahr al-Assad's troops.
Users are able to search for specific books on the site and are also able to look for different 'trigger warnings' to avoid encountering uncomfortable topics, including child abuse, cancer and miscarriage.
The White House accuses Republicans of 'endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security, and hurting seniors.'
'Two years of pain, two years of heartbreak, of uncertainty, of business loss, of schools closing, of just conflict inside our households, but I said from since the time I was elected I said that this virus was not going to define us, we're going to define ourselves.'
President Joe Biden is ramping up his attacks on House Republicans, claiming their budget proposals will hurt American families, as both sides prepare to do battle over spending by the federal government before it runs out of money sometime this summer.
In some of the most harrowing scenes of the conflict so far, at least eight civilians fleeing the town of Irpin, near Kyiv, were killed in Russian attacks alongside the suitcases they had packed for their escape.
'As MAGA House Republicans go to Florida for their retreat, the White House and Congressional Democrats are going on offense, slamming the Freedom Caucus's MAGA Budget Proposal as a Five-Alarm Fire for hardworking families.
'People underestimated what the House Republicans could accomplish, and we've really set the agenda,' the third highest ranking House Republican said. 'We are playing our role as the as the last backstop for the American people from single party Democrat rule.
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