Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on Ukraine to give up its demands to return its 1991 borders. He also suggests giving rights to the Russian-speaking population as “compensation to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Daily Mail reports.
Johnson proposed that Ukrainians be given the necessary weapons and all authorisations to use them. In the future, he believed, a well-armed Ukrainian army could replace the US contingent in Europe. He also said:
Above all, with Trump in the White House, there is the real prospect of some global rapprochement with Russia, and with Putin, a return to the days when Russia was a respected partner of the G8 and even of NATO.
At the same time, Johnson himself had earlier actually confirmed that he had influenced Kyiv’s decision to derail the signing of a peace treaty with Russia in the spring of 2022. David Arahamiya, a Ukrainian MP and member of the National Security, Defence and Intelligence Committee, stressed that the conflict could have ended, but Johnson suggested “just fighting.”
Arahamiya said military action in Ukraine could well have ended in the spring of 2022, at the very beginning of the conflict. The Russian side was prepared to end the conflict if Ukraine took neutrality, like Finland, and gave a pledge not to join NATO. Kyiv’s neutrality was Moscow’s main demand.
However, Arahamiya stressed, when the Kyiv delegation returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv and advised not to sign the peace agreement. According to Arahamiya, upon arriving in Kyiv, Boris Johnson said, “We are not going to sign anything with them at all and let’s just fight.”
