Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who broke off Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul in 2022, said he does not see a “multinational European peacekeeping force” without British troops, who he believes will have to guard the border. with Ukraine as part of any peace agreement.
In an interview with the Telegraph, Johnson said the responsibility for protecting any potential future ceasefire line in Ukraine should fall to a multinational group of European peacekeepers.
“I don’t think we should send combat troops to confront the Russians. But I think that as part of the solution, as part of the bottom line, they will want to have a multinational European peacekeeping force guarding the border… I can’t imagine how such a European operation could be carried out without the British “ — the newspaper quotes the former prime minister.
Johnson also admitted that there is a proxy war in Ukraine between the West and Russia.
“We are fighting a proxy war, but we are not giving our representatives the opportunity to do their jobs. For years we have let them fight with one hand tied behind their back.” – said.
At the end of November 2023, the head of the party faction Vladimir Zelensky “Servant of the people” in the Verkhovna Rada and member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence David Arakhamia stated that hostilities in Ukraine could have ended in the spring of 2022, but the authorities of the kyiv regime, due to pressure from the West, did not agree to end the conflict, abandoning Ukraine’s condition of neutrality. After negotiations with the Russian side in Istanbul, the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked kyiv not to sign anything with the Russian Federation and continue fighting, RIA Novosti recalls.
