Former UK Prime Minister and outspoken supporter of Ukraine Boris Johnson has sharply criticised US President Donald Trump’s proposals for ending the struggle.
Supply: Johnson on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda
Particulars: Johnson acknowledged that Russian chief Vladimir Putin is indiscriminately killing Ukrainian civilians, but is being supplied the next: to retain sovereign Ukrainian territory seized by power, to regulate Ukraine’s future by blocking its NATO membership, to have sanctions lifted, to achieve financial cooperation with the US and to rebuild its army for one more assault in just a few years.
"As for Ukraine – what do they get after three years of heroic resistance towards a brutal and unprovoked invasion? What’s their reward for the appalling sacrifices they’ve made – for the sake, as they’ve endlessly been informed, of freedom and democracy around the globe?
Aside from the precise to share their pure sources with the US they get nothing," Johnson wrote.
He added that nothing within the proposed "peace plan" would realistically stop one other Russian invasion.
"If we’re to forestall extra atrocities by Putin then we should have a long run, credible and above all correctly funded safety assure for Ukraine – a assure issued by the UK, the US and all western allies," Johnson acknowledged.
Background:
- Final week, the Trump administration reportedly handed Ukraine a one-page doc in Paris, presenting it as the ultimate supply for a peace deal. In it, the US exhibits readiness to recognise Russian management over Crimea and ease sanctions on Moscow.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned the Trump administration had proven Ukraine and Russia a path to peace and what the end line ought to appear to be – and now each side simply must say "sure".
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