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The signatories to this appeal oppose the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine in calling for a just peace based on the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine.

We support sanctions on Russian exports to reduce Russia’s ability to finance its war of aggression, including on its exports of climate damaging fossil fuels, mainly oil ($200bn) and natural gas ($71bn). Together these comprise over half of Russian exports by value. Russia is planning to massively expand its production and export of LNG from the Siberian Arctic Yamal Peninsula gas field, Yamal is estimated to hold 25% of the world’s gas reserves, the extraction of which would significantly contribute to climate change.

An estimated $8bn worth annually of this LNG is being carried in fifteen ice-breaking tankers mainly to European ports. Six of these tankers are owned and operated by Glasgow-based corporation Seapeak. The UK government has banned the importation of Russian LNG. But it hasn’t sanctioned its shipping by UK-based businesses to third countries, including to the EU, nor has it sanctioned the insurance by City insurers of tankers engaged in the trade.

We call on the UK government to ban the participation of UK-based companies in transporting or providing insurance for the shipping of Russian LNG.

We call on both the Scottish and UK governments to deny any financial or other forms of assistance to all companies engaged in these activities.

Read more about the Stop Seapeak campaign

Prominent signatories

Civil society organisations in Ukraine

Razom We Stand
B4Ukraine
NGO Ekoltava
NGO Zero Waste Society
NGO Energy Agency “Alternative”
NGO Fund RcErBs
ICO Environment – People – Law (EPL)
NGO “DYC “DOBRO”
Energy Transition Coalition
Friday for Future Ukraine
NGO Plato
DiXi Group NGO
Centre for Economic Strategy
Environmental Humanitarian Association «Green World»
NGO Environmental Club Eremurus
NGO Center for Environmental Initiatives “Ecoaction”
NGO City of the Sun
Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
National Ecological Centre of Ukraine
NGO “Kharkiv Anticorruption Center”
NGO SaveDnipro
Greenpeace Ukraine

UK and Scotland elected political representatives

Sian Berry, MP, Green Party of England and Wales
Carol Mochan, MSP, Scottish Labour
Maggie Chapman, MSP, Scottish Green Party
Councillor Ann Ballinger, SNP
Councillor Steven Carr, SNP and Dnipro Kids
Councillor Graham Campbell, SNP, Chair of Glasgow City Council Education Committee, Chair of Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
Councillor Andrea Cowan, SNP
Councillor Katy Loudon, SNP
Councillor Math Campbell-Sturgess, SNP
Councillor Brenda Durno, SNP

Trade union representatives

Stephen Smellie, UNISON NEC Member

Political, environmental, and civil society organisations and campaigners

Mykhailo Volynets, Chair of Independent Trade Union of Ukrainian Miners (NGPU)
Greenpeace UK
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Simon Pirani
Socialists for Independence
Andy Stuart, SNP NEC Member
Viktoria Cameron, SNP NEC Member
Steven Campbell, Convenor of Young Scots for Independence
Chris Ford, Secretary of Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Fred Leplat, Chair of Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Peter Cooper, Secretary of Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
Dr Natalie Kopytko, Lecturer at University of Leeds, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign NEC Member
Dr Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign NEC Member
Tim Cooper, Officer, Nottingham East CLP
Marjan Pokhylyy, Edinburgh
Turkan Ozcan, Director of the Kurdish People’s Assembly
Stephen Hoffman, UK Friends of Ukraine
Ilya Zaslavskiy, RazomWeStand
Magda Czarnecka, CEO of Feniks
Liz Murray, Global Justice Now
Bohdan Kramar, CEO of Shevchenko.philia
Isobel Mercer, Uplift UK