British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. File photoLONDON, Mar 19 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would be a mistake to normalize relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the events in Ukraine. «Trying to normalize relations with Putin after that, as we are did in 2014 would mean making the same mistake again,» Johnson told the Conservative Party convention. revolution» in Moscow. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to bullying, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. difficult to abandon Russian oil and gas
