Last time when Russia tried to launch a vehicle onto orbit, launching ramp has fell apart. So don't throw stones in the glass castle.
To this day the only sanctions that really hurt russia have been enacted by Ukraine, the kinetic kind reaching their ships and refineries.
There was a lot of saying out loud on that one and it's hard to figure cause and effect on consequences but the UK has sent a lot of missiles and drones to Ukraine.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/russia-news-keir-starmer-kremlin...
"Almost 200 so-called Russian "shadow fleet" vessels have entered UK waters since the prime minister threatened to intercept them nearly seven weeks ago, BBC Verify analysis suggests." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8pvgw802no
Strong signal would be Alexander Mishkin, Anatoliy Chepiga and their superior fatally slipping on Ice in downtown Moscow, not putting them on sanctions list.
>In what then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called an "extraordinary international response" on the part of the UK's allies, on 26 and 27 March 2018 there followed a concerted action by the U.S., most EU member states, Albania, Australia, Canada, Macedonia, Moldova, and Norway, and other NATO states to expel a total of over 140 Russian accredited diplomats (including those expelled by the UK)
which I guess is not wacking Mishin and Chepiga but it's not nothing either.
Austria, the central hub of FSB spy network (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/vladimir-putin...), has over 200.
Freezing ownership of https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/putin-allys-child-revealed-as-... and many more https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/03/8005603/ like it would hurt putin more than some tiny number or diplomats.