Boris Johnson Meets With Zelensky Again, Says Ukraine Will Defeat Putin
Russia has blamed the U.S. and UK of prolonging war with weapon transfers
Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, visited Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday in a surprise visit to praise the “grit” of Zelensky’s troops and promised military training so his forces can defeat Russia.
"As Ukrainian soldiers fire UK missiles in defence of your nation's sovereignty, they do so also in defence of the very freedoms we take for granted.
"That is why I have offered President Zelensky a major new military training programme that could change the equation of this war - harnessing that most powerful of forces, the Ukrainian determination to win.
"Two months on from my last visit, the Ukrainian grit, determination and resilience is stronger than ever, and I know that unbreakable resolve will long outlive the vain ambitions of President Putin."1
Johnson took to Twitter to promise Ukrainians that the UK will be in their corner until they “ultimately prevail.”
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said in an interview a day earlier that the Kremlin was forced to carry out a “special military operation” in Ukraine because there was “no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act.”
He blamed both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss for both openly saying that “we should force Russia to its knees.”
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“Go on, then, do it!” Lavrov said.
A day earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis all visited Zelensky in Kyiv in a show of unity against Russia.
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Macron, who was criticized earlier this month for saying Russia should not be “humiliated,” changed his tune during the visit and said Ukraine must defeat Russia.
"We saw a devastated city and traces of barbarism. And also the heroism of Ukrainian men and women who stopped the Russian army when it went to Kyiv. Ukraine is resisting. She must be able to win," Macron said after a a tour of Irpin.
The French president came bearing gifts. He promised Ukraine six massive truck-mounted artillery guns so “Ukraine alone can decide its fate.”
TRENDPOST: As NATO’s first secretary-general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe and the Americans in. Instead of disbanding NATO when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Washington dramatically expanded NATO.
In violation of the Reagan-Gorbachev agreements, the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush regimes added constituent parts of the former Soviet empire to NATO—Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.
France, taken out of NATO by General de Gaulle, rejoined in April 2009, 18 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, followed by other nations including Croatia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
When the Soviet Union broke up, and the U.S. said it would not expand NATO, there were 16 NATO nations. Today there are 30... with some of them on Russia’s borders.
Long forgotten was the U.S. and NATO’S pledge not to expand into Eastern Europe following the deal made during the 1990 negotiations between the West and the Soviet Union over German unification.
Therefore, in the view of Russia, it is taking self-defense actions to protect itself from NATO’s eastward march.
BBC report titled, “Boris Johnson travels to Kyiv to meet Volodymyr Zelensky”