Boris Johnson: The UK and allies are ‘dragging our feet’ on Ukraine support

Boris Johnson has accused the UK and its allies of “dragging their toes” over supplying weapons to Ukraine, calling on the West to “end the job”.

The previous prime minister stated that the UK had solely contributed a “fraction” of what the USA had given to Ukraine. He added that the US has solely given 1 per cent of the American defence finances.

In an article for The Spectator, he referred to as on the West to offer Ukraine with new kinds of weaponry: “There is just one factor they need from us, and that’s the weaponry to complete the job – and so I merely don’t perceive why we maintain dragging our toes. Why are we all the time so sluggish?”.

The article for The Spectator, the journal Johnson used to edit, comes after a current go to to the nation, the place he visited a rehabilitation centre for Ukrainian troopers injured within the battle. 

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Of his go to, he stated: “In the previous few days I did my greatest to probe them on this level – however I discovered not the slightest slackening of Ukrainian resolve. They don’t see how they might commerce land for peace, as a result of they don’t see how they might probably consider a phrase Putin says. 

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“Don’t consider for one second that these Ukrainian troopers — or the broader inhabitants of Ukraine — might be persuaded in some way to put down their weapons or do a cope with Putin”, he wrote. 

“They don’t seem to be preventing at our behest, and won’t cease as a result of we are saying so.”

“What the hell are we ready for?”, he requested. 

“There is just one factor they need from us and that’s the weaponry to complete the job — and so I merely don’t perceive why we maintain dragging our toes. Why are we all the time so sluggish? How can we glance these males within the eye and clarify the delay?”

As for particular weapons, Johnson stated the Ukrainians want man-portable air-defence programs (Manpads) to take out the Russian helicopters, in addition to “Patriot-style programs to guard themselves in opposition to assault from the air, and so they want higher long-range artillery to take out the Russian positions”.

Johnson described Ukraine’s requests as a “comparatively trivial outlay”, including that western leaders have to recognise that the “stakes are monumental”.

“If Putin wins in Ukraine, if he holds even a fraction of what he has taken, then the lesson shall be clear: that aggression pays, that European borders can as soon as once more be modified by violence the place Putin fancies a revanchist and domestically rabble-rousing army operation”.