" A mistake ".
Here's how British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described what it would be like to return to normal relations with Russia, even if the Russian invasion of Ukraine stops.
During a speech to his Conservative Party conference in Blackpool (north England) on Saturday, attended by Ukraine's ambassador to London, Vadym Prystaiko, Boris Johnson said the time had come to "choose between freedom and oppression”.
Referring to those who prefer to put up with tyranny, the head of the conservative government felt that "they are deeply wrong".
"Trying to normalize relations with Putin again after that, as we did in 2014, would be making the exact same mistake," he said, referring to Ukraine's annexation of Crimea.
Johnson tackles Putin
Boris Johnon felt that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he felt threatened by freedom and democracy in Ukraine "because in Putin's Russia you are imprisoned for 15 years just for calling an invasion an invasion, and if you oppose Putin in an election, you are poisoned or shot.
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He said Vladimir Putin was “terrified by the effect of this Ukrainian model on him and on Russia” and “totally panicked” about a revolution in Moscow.
The call for peace
As Russia intensified its offensive in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Moscow to agree to “meet” to “discuss” peace seriously.
But British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said she fears the peace talks are just a "smokescreen" used by the Kremlin ahead of a new offensive.
In an interview with The Times daily published on Saturday, Liz Truss said she was "very skeptical" about the negotiations, believing that Russia was using them as a diversion to better "regroup" its forces.
“Their invasion is not going as planned.
We see no serious Russian troop withdrawals or serious proposals on the table,” she said.
“The Russians lied and lied again.
I fear that the negotiation is another attempt to create a diversion and a smokescreen against appalling (atrocities)”, she added, stressing that “if a country is serious about the negotiations, it will not not indiscriminately bomb civilians that day".
In its latest update on the situation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, the British Ministry of Defense stresses that "the Kremlin has so far failed to achieve its initial objectives" and has been "forced to modify its operational approach.
This will "likely involve indiscriminate use of firepower leading to increased civilian casualties, destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure and an escalation of the humanitarian crisis", he adds.
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