Not much of a surprise given how far Boris Johnson’s nose was up Russian rear ends. His election campaign advisor (and Brexit pioneer) Dominic Cummings used to live in Russia before he popped up on the UK political scene, then towards the end of Johnson’s tenure he was given a tour of the UK’s nuclear weapons facilities for some reason. When it came to Russia’s initial invasion, the UK issued sanctions against Russian banks - except for a 28 day exemption to Russia’s biggest bank. The end of this exemption coincided with Russia making their first withdrawal, and I’m not sure the sanction was ever put into place.