A landlady has barred Vladimir Putin from drinking in her pub, in the latest move to sanction the Russian president.

Sam Rice, who runs the Loaf & Cheese in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, said the war in Ukraine was “all our customers are talking about”.

And she warned that such was the anger over the leader’s actions that punters had even said “if he came in, they would wreck him”.

Ms Rice, who made the announcement in her local paper website, told Sky News: “What he is doing is just wrong – and people here feel very strongly about it.”

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Sanctions against the Russian president have been growing.

Restrictions have been placed on Russian financial institutions, as well as Mr Putin and his inner circle personally, as many government figures, other politicians and media outlets blamed him directly for the invasion of Ukraine.

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Sporting ties with Russia have been axed, global businesses have also withdrawn goods and services from the region and in the UK products such as Russian vodka have been removed from shelves.

On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden announced he had banned Russian oil and gas imports, calling it a “powerful blow” to “Putin’s war”.

The UK has said it will stop importing Russian oil by the end of this year.

Key developments in the Ukraine war:
• Ukraine claims senior Russian general has been killed in fighting near Kharkiv
• Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating earlier humanitarian corridors
• Russia has warned it could cut its gas supplies to the West through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline
• Talks between Ukraine and Russia held in Belarus
• New laws to help target Russian oligarchs pass Commons

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