LONDON, Nov 10 (AFP) - The British government says it has frozen assets worth 18 billion pounds ($20.5bn) held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned for the invasion of Ukraine.

The frozen Russian assets were worth 6 billion pounds ($6.8bn), more than the amount reported across all other British sanctions regimes.

Andrew Griffith, a junior government minister in the Treasury, said, “We have imposed the most severe sanctions ever on Russia and it is crippling their war machine.”

“Our message is clear: we will not allow Putin to succeed in this brutal war.”