In an interview with the BBC, Johnson pointed out that the intelligence reports available to his country point not to a progressive invasion from the eastern region of Donbas -under Russian control-, but to the massive influx of troops Russians from the north of the country and from Belarus, with the aim of “encircling Kiev”. “The plans we see are for something that might be the biggest war in Europe since 1945 in terms of its scale,” he said.
Johnson appealed to “understand the cost in human lives” that such a military action would entail, “not only for the Ukrainians, but for the young Russians.” In addition, he added that all the indications point to the plan of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “in some way has already started“.
The United Kingdom and the United States anticipate prevent Russian companies from “trading in pounds and dollars”a sanction that in his opinion “would hit Russia very hard,” Johnson explained in the interview, held in Munich (Germany) on the sidelines of the security conference in which he participated this Saturday.
The British Prime Minister believes there is evidence that the invasion of Ukraine may be imminentand that fact cannot be hidden.
Johnson met in Munich with the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, to whom “he underlined the unequivocal support of the United Kingdom for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”, according to a spokesman for the head of the Government.