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Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, February 28th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

Over the weekend, we saw tougher government sanctions on Moscow and a stunning corporate move

to divest from Russia after it invaded Ukraine. We'll also talk with the FT's John Thornhill

about what this invasion says about the limits of Russia's cyber warfare.

Cyberweapons couldn't amplify or complement other forms of power, but they are not a substitute

for them. They can't achieve things on their own, so I think hard power still counts.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

The world's biggest sovereign wealth investor, Norway's oil fund, has been instructed to freeze

all new investments in Russia immediately. It'll also start unwinding its existing $3 billion worth

of Russian holdings. This is part of a wider package of support for Ukraine.

And in the UK, oil major BP announced that it will divest its 20% stake in Russian state oil

company, Rozneft. We spoke to the FT's town Wilson about that.

This move is absolutely huge, and if you'd asked me three days ago, completely unexpected,

and BP's been in Russia for 30 years, and it's held this stake in Rozneft for almost a decade,

up until very, very recently. I mean, when you would ask BP about its Rozneft stake,

which has always been contentious, BP would say that they're in Russia for business, not for politics,

but really in the last four days when we've seen the brutality of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

On Friday, we reported that Chief Executive Bernalini had been called in to see a senior

British cabinet member who expressed his unease with BP's stake in the business, and then 48 hours

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