Boris Johnson: Britain should send troops to Ukraine now

In an interview with the BBC, former prime minister Boris Johnson expressed regret that western allies have not given more decisive military and financial support to Ukraine, to bring the conflict to an end. Laura Kuenssberg, asked Johnson what specific action he would call for. Johnson said the West needed to ‘flip a switch in Putin’s brain’, so that he believes the outcome of the war will be a ‘free, sovereign, independent, westward facing Ukraine’. The former prime minister called for increased military and financial assistance, impounding Putin’s ‘shadow fleet’, and for non-combat British ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine. Johnson asked why we can’t send troops now, if we are planning for boots on the ground ‘after Putin has condescended to have a ceasefire’. He argued that ‘the one person who suffers from escalation is Putin.’

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