The Prime Minister suggested that the proposed agreement was like trying to “negotiate with a crocodile when it grabs your leg in its jaws” and promised to focus on supporting Ukrainian troops instead.He also said that President VolodymyrZelensky had told him that he hoped to expel Russian troops from the eastern region of Donbas but that he was unlikely to want to recapture Crimea, which had been under Mr. Putin‘s rule for eight years.
Mr Johnson was speaking on his way to India, where he would try to persuade Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give Ukraine more support. However, the Prime Minister acknowledged that India may sever its ties with the Kremlin asked if he was optimistic about the ongoing peace talks, the Prime Minister said: “It is up to the Ukrainian people to decide their future. But I think it is very difficult to see how the Ukrainian can negotiate with Putin now as he faces a lack of good faith and his obvious strategy, which is to try to swallow and capture as much Ukraine as possible and possibly have. some form of communication that emerges from the realm of power. ”
He denied that Mr Putin was “an official spokesman” and said he would like to invade Kyiv and despite the failure of the first attack, he added: “I do not really see how the Ukrainian people can easily settle and come to some kind of residence.”Mr Johnson said: “How can you negotiate with a crocodile with a leg in its jaws? That is the hardship that the people of Ukraine face. We have to keep going, keep giving them what they need”.
MrZelensky told the Prime Minister on his regular phone calls that he would not allow Russia’s plan to take over the entire Donbas region, about a third of which had already been filled with various troops.
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Mr Johnson said: “The President of Ukraine’s view is that he would really like to see the Russian military fired from the existing positions in Donetsk and Luhansk. That is a very good maximalist situation. In Crimea, they are not as big as they are ”When meeting with Mr Modi in Delhi on Friday, the Prime Minister may have urged him to leave India’s neutral position in the war and conflict after Ukraine – but acknowledged that the country may want to maintain relations with Moscow.
Mr Johnson said: “I have spoken to Narendra Modi about Ukraine and in fact the Indians are critical of what happened in Bucha, they were very strong in what they said. But the UK, in particular, should see India’s historical ties with Russia, I think we should live in that, and show where Putin is, I’m afraid, to let Russia down”.
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