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At the time the then Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, had said it would "drain Russia's war chest – and every ruble we take from Putin's hands helps save Ukrainian lives".

The soil was so compacted that each time they dug a planting hole, it took an hour to drain.

The problem with that is that it drained reserves ahead of $20bn of debt due next year.

The process of reversing that stimulus has been draining bank deposits, known as reserves, from the financial system.

After shipments to New York drained silver from London at the start of 2025, a flood of money into an exchange-traded fund backed by the metal pulled more from the market.