British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, June 19British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed concern that in the situation with Ukraine it is necessary to prepare for a long period of hostilities, in connection with which he called on Britain's allies to help Kyiv. «I'm afraid we need to prepare for a long war,» Johnson wrote in a column for The Sunday Times, adding that the Russian Federation «is resorting to a campaign of attrition.» According to Johnson, Britain and its allies «must respond by giving Ukraine the strategic endurance needed to survive and ultimately win.» In this regard, he listed «four vital steps» that Britain and its allies must take. As the first point, the British prime minister singled out the provision of weapons, equipment, ammunition to Ukraine, as well as the training of the Ukrainian military. «Secondly, we must help keep the Ukrainian state alive,» Johnson continued, adding that the Ukrainian authorities need to «pay salaries, maintain schools, deliver aid, and begin reconstruction where possible.»
«But I took a picture»: the British ridiculed Johnson's visit to Kiev Fourth, it is necessary to move out the blocked grain stocks, wrote Johnson. , which will last for months and years,» the British Prime Minister wrote. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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. Earlier, Putin, speaking at SPIEF, called the saddest option for Ukraine to supply grain in exchange for weapon. He noted that there are five or six options for the export of Ukrainian grain, and the Kyiv authorities should decide for themselves how to do this, without focusing on their owners from across the ocean.
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