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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK government: Live news and latest updates
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Welcome to The Athletic's coverage of today's football news.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the UK government over Russia’s continuing invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, freezing the sale of the Premier League club.
Described by the UK government as a “pro-Kremlin oligarch”, Abramovich has been hit with an asset freeze and a travel ban. Latest updates here on what this means for Chelsea.
Last night, Chelsea's men's team beat Norwich 3-1, while the women's team won 4-1 at West Ham.
Ahead of a busy Premier League weekend, we'll bring you further updates from around the division.
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An update on the sale of Chelsea...
As you were, with regards to the sale of Chelsea.
The government has given the go-ahead for the process to resume and Raine Group, the US bank tasked with selling Chelsea, has written to interested parties to say so.
Matt Slater has more.
How are Chelsea Women affected?
Flo Lloyd-Hughes investigates how Chelsea's women's team is impacted by the sanctions against club owner Roman Abramovich.
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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and six others today were hit with crippling sanctions from the UK government over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Abramovich's one-time business partner, Oleg Deripaska, was also targeted, alongside Rosneft chief Igor Sechin and four more described as being in Putin's 'inner circle'.
They include Andrey Kostin, chairman of the second largest bank in Russia, Alexei Miller, chief executive of of energy company Gazprom, Nikolai Tokarev, president of the Russia state-owned pipeline company Transneft and Dmitri Lebedev, chairman of Bank Rossiya.
The announcement of sanctions against Abramovich immediately threw Chelsea football club into crisis as it was banned from selling match tickets or signing new players and ordered to close its stadium shop.
The sale of the club was also put on hold as Abramovich's UK assets were frozen and he was hit with a travel ban, alongside his fellow oligarchs.
Shortly after the news, Boris Johnson said: 'There can be no safe havens for those who have supported Putin's vicious assault on Ukraine.
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