Our task is to enlist time on Ukraine's side.' Everything will depend on whether Ukraine can strengthen its ability to defend its soil faster than Russia can renew its capacity to attack. Writing in The Sunday Times, Mr Johnson said: 'Time is now the vital factor. 'We've got to make it clear that we are supporting the Ukrainians in their ambitions… to expel the Russians, expel Putin's armies, from everything that he has obtained since February 24, and make sure the Ukrainians are not encouraged to go for a bad peace, something that simply wouldn't endure.' In a thinly-veiled barb at Emmanuel Macron's pleas to 'make nice' with warmonger Putin, the Prime Minister has said a Russian victory in Ukraine would be 'catastrophic' and urged the international community to use its power to expel Moscow's invading armies. His demeanour was far less positive when he met French President Macron and other EU leaders on Thursdayīoris Johnson has urged world leaders to hold their nerve for a long war in Ukraine, or risk the 'greatest victory for aggression in Europe since the Second World War'.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warmly welcomed the PM as they toured the Kyiv streets yesterday.He also told Ukrainian officials the UK is prepared to train tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers for combat.PM said Ukraine should not have to accept a 'bad peace', urging Western leaders to offer continued support.
Boris Johnson today declared that Western leaders must steel themselves for a drawn-out conflict in Ukraine.'In the current situation, against a backdrop of increasing risks for us and threats, Russia's decision to conduct a special military operation was forced - difficult, of course, but forced and necessary.'īoris urges world leaders to hold their nerve for a long war in Ukraine or risk the 'greatest victory for aggression in Europe since WW2' in dig at Macron's plea to 'make nice' with warmonger Putin 'The West has fundamentally refused to fulfil its earlier obligations, it turned out to be simply impossible to reach any new agreements with it,' Putin said. Putin said the Russian soldiers in the Donbas were also fighting to defend Russia's own 'rights to secure development'. Moving on to focus on his so-called 'special military operation', Putin said the main aim of the incursion was to defend 'our' people in the largely Russian-speaking Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
He added that the US considers itself 'God's emissary on Earth', and that Western sanctions were founded on a false premise that Russia had no economic sovereignty. He went on to announce that Western allies 'think they have won' and said Moscow's war in Ukraine had become a 'lifesaver for the West to blame all the problems on Russia.' 'Those who didn't want to listen to this have lost millions abroad.' When he eventually took to the stage, Putin issued a thinly-veiled threat to oligarchs thinking of quitting his regime. In a lengthy speech at the SPIEF conference, Putin went on to accuse the US of 'playing God' and treating countries like 'colonies' as he brushed off the impact of Western sanctions on Russia's economy.Īmid a lengthy denunciation of America and its allies, Putin, 69, warned 'nothing will be as it used to be' as he delivered his address, which was delayed by 90 minutes after the event suffered a cyber attack. Maximilian Hess, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told The Telegraph that Putin's retort to Tokayev was a 'clear threat' and argued that Tokayev was reliant on Russian support following widespread riots in Kazakhstan in January, which were only quelled with the help of Russian paratroopers operating under the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - an eastern security bloc similar to NATO. He went on to paint Kazakhstan as a nation friendly to Russia, but quickly added: 'The same thing could have happened with Ukraine, but they wouldn't be our allies.' 'What is the Soviet Union?' Putin asked rhetorically. The Russian President sat quietly, considering Tokayev's comments, before appearing to deliver a calm but quietly menacing warning. we apply this principle to the quasi-state territories, which in our view, are the Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics', the Kazakh President said in a daring defiance of Putin's war in eastern Ukraine.
'We don't recognise Taiwan, Kosovo, South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Tokayev, sat metres away from the brooding Russian despot at the St Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF) yesterday, described the DPR and LPR as 'quasi-state territories'. Putin made the comments in response to a dramatic statement by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who sensationally declared he did not recognise the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
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