The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has announced a new round of sanctions targeting individuals and entities closely associated with Putin's regime. The measures, implemented nearly a year after Alexei Navalny's death, include asset freezes, trust services sanctions, travel bans and transport bans on four individuals and two entities. Notable targets include Pavel Fradkov, a Russian Defence Minister, Vladimir Selin, head of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control, and Artem Chaika, owner of a company supporting Russian state-owned businesses. Additionally, two subsidiaries of Rosatom have been sanctioned for their involvement in Russia's defence sector and military activities in Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, emphasised the UK's commitment to maintaining pressure on Putin and supporting Ukraine's sovereignty, while also addressing broader international issues at the Munich Security Conference.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has announced sanctions against five senior Georgian officials in response to violent attacks on journalists and peaceful protestors. This action, coordinated with the United States, imposes UK travel bans and asset freezes on the individuals responsible for the crackdown following public opposition to the Georgian Dream party's decision to pause the country's European integration. The sanctions follow the UK's recent suspension of programme support to the Georgian government and restriction of defence cooperation. The FCDO's decision aligns with condemnations from UN experts and the OSCE regarding the pattern of repression and human rights violations in Georgia, particularly in light of the use of force against protestors after the October parliamentary elections.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has imposed immediate sanctions on six individuals on 5 February 2026. The measures were announced by the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, following her visit to the Sudan–Chad border. The sanctions target senior commanders of the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces, as well as individuals accused of financing the conflict, procuring weapons and recruiting foreign mercenaries, in response to their alleged roles in fuelling the war in Sudan and enabling serious abuses against civilians. The FCDO stated that the measures aim to increase pressure on those responsible for massacres, sexual violence, forced displacement and other atrocities, particularly in Darfur and Gezira states, and to disrupt the financial and logistical networks sustaining the conflict. The sanctions form part of a wider UK strategy combining enforcement, humanitarian assistance and diplomacy. Under this approach, the UK has committed £146m in aid during the current financial year, is calling for an immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access, and will prioritise Sudan during its February 2026 presidency of the UN Security Council while co-hosting an international conference in April 2026 to strengthen coordinated international efforts to end the conflict and promote accountability.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), in collaboration with the National Crime Agency, has announced new sanctions against Media Land, a Russian cybercrime syndicate that provides 'bulletproof' hosting services used to facilitate ransomware, phishing, and other cyberattacks targeting UK businesses. The coordinated action, taken jointly with the United States and Australia, also sanctions Media Land’s leader, Alexander Volosovik, demonstrating the ongoing international commitment to countering malicious Russian cyber activity. With cyberattacks costing UK businesses £14.7bn in 2024, the sanctions reinforce the government’s commitment to protecting the economy and national security.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has published guidance detailing the consolidation of UK sanctions designations into a single list. From 28 January 2026, the UK Sanctions List will become the sole source for UK sanctions designations, replacing the current dual-list system that includes the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) Consolidated List of Asset Freeze Targets. The change requires businesses to update compliance systems that currently use OFSI Group ID identifiers.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has published new guides on UK Russia sanctions compliance for non-UK businesses operating outside the UK. The guides include general compliance principles and country-specific guidance for businesses in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Armenia. The materials aim to help foreign businesses understand UK sanctions requirements and implement risk management procedures.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has launched a new UK Sanctions List Search Function to enable users to search for designated persons without downloading the entire list.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has presented to Parliament the Agreement on Defence Export Controls (CP 1396), signed in Paris on 17 September 2021. The treaty sets out frameworks for defence export cooperation between participating states, including provisions on intergovernmental programmes, industrial collaboration, and a 'de minimis' principle for component exports. The UK has not acceded to the agreement, which also establishes a permanent consultation body to resolve operational differences between parties.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has published the 2024 UK International Climate Finance (ICF) results, highlighting its support for 110 million people in adapting to the effects of climate change. The results illustrate the impact of the UK’s ICF from 2011, providing developing countries with access to clean energy and technology to drive the global transition to net zero.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has published the 2025 UK International Climate Finance (ICF) results, showing that ICF programmes have supported 137 million people in adapting to the effects of climate change. Between April 2011 and March 2025, ICF programmes are estimated to have: (1) provided 89 million people with improved access to clean energy; (2) supported 33 million people in improving their resilience to climate change; (3) reduced or avoided 145 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions; (4) installed 4,872 megawatts of clean energy capacity; (5) avoided 717,000 hectares of ecosystem loss; (6) generated or protected ecosystem services valued at £6.2m; (7) mobilised £10.5bn public and £10.4bn private finance for climate change purposes in developing countries; (8) supported the sustainable management of 12 million hectares of land; and (9) provided technical assistance to 141 countries, 3.4 million people and 7,500 organisations.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has published Decision No. 1/2026 of the UK-EU Joint Committee, which came into force on 2 February 2026. This decision incorporates Regulation (EU) 2025/14—concerned with the approval and market surveillance of non-road mobile machinery circulating on public roads—into Annex 2 of the Windsor Framework, under the provisions for construction products and machinery. The treaty was presented to Parliament in March 2026.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has published a Post-Legislative Scrutiny Memorandum for the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018). The Memorandum summarises and provides a preliminary assessment of SAMLA 2018 and how it has been implemented, a case study on Russia sanctions, to show how the Act enables the UK’s sanctions response to international crises, and an annex of secondary legislation made under, including sanctions regulations.