Quote Originally Posted by phild View Post
You can now get 88 Russian Rubles to the Pound sterling. In fact the Ruble currency price as climbed in price since the 7th March and is now currently higher than it was before the war! Therefore sanctions aint working
Not so. There are around 113 Roubles to £. Either you're confusing it with the $ or that a Rouble is £0.0088. All last year there were less than 100. The Rouble has recovered the last few days. A truer statement might be

The Rouble is now worth about the same as it was on Feb 24th when they invaded but is much lower than it was last year before the threat.