LONDON: Russia is preparing to plunge Europe into its worst conflict since World War II, British Prime Minister Boris johnson has said, warned that any invasion of Ukraine Will free Moscow from global finance.
“The facts are all indications that planning has already begun in some sense,” he said in a BBC interview broadcast on Sunday from the Munich Security Conference, after two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in attacks around the rebel-held enclave. after.
The Russian offensive plan would see that its troops would not only enter Ukraine from the rebel-occupied east, but also northward from Belarus and encircle the capital. KievJohnson said, citing US intelligence provided by President Joe Biden to Western leaders.
“People need to understand the enormous cost that human lives inflict,” he said, after previously indicating that the West would continue to support any resistance to Ukraine after the invasion.
“I’m afraid to say that the plan we’re looking at is something that could actually be the biggest war in Europe since 1945, only on a larger scale.”
In a speech Saturday at the convention in Germany, Johnson warned that Western sanctions would make it “impossible” for the president to respond to any aggression. Vladimir PutinGovernance to reach the city of London’s deepest capital markets.
He signaled global access to sanctions, including US measures, telling the BBC they would stop Russian companies “trading in pounds and dollars” – which he said would hit Russia “very, very hard”. .
The UK government has long been accused of turning a blind eye to the lucrative flow of Russian-sourced money through London, some of which has ended up in Conservative coffers, although Johnson’s party maintains that all of its Donations are legal.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported a list of elite party donors it said had privileged access to Johnson’s government, including Lubov Chernukhin, who was married to Putin’s former deputy finance minister. Vladimir Chernukhin,
British law on company and property ownership has also long benefited investors who wish to keep their involvement a secret, amid allegations that the Putin regime has too many assets abroad.
But Johnson said on Saturday that Britain intended to “open the Matryoshka dolls of Russian-owned companies and Russian-owned entities, to find the ultimate beneficiaries”.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meanwhile told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that unless Russia is stopped in Ukraine, Putin could potentially connect the Baltic states and the western Balkans “to the mid-1990s or even earlier.” would like to turn”.
And writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Home Secretary Preeti Patel The British media, pointing to past cyber “interventions” against telecommunications and energy infrastructure, said the “effects will be felt here too” if war breaks out, Russia was accused of.
“The facts are all indications that planning has already begun in some sense,” he said in a BBC interview broadcast on Sunday from the Munich Security Conference, after two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in attacks around the rebel-held enclave. after.
The Russian offensive plan would see that its troops would not only enter Ukraine from the rebel-occupied east, but also northward from Belarus and encircle the capital. KievJohnson said, citing US intelligence provided by President Joe Biden to Western leaders.
“People need to understand the enormous cost that human lives inflict,” he said, after previously indicating that the West would continue to support any resistance to Ukraine after the invasion.
“I’m afraid to say that the plan we’re looking at is something that could actually be the biggest war in Europe since 1945, only on a larger scale.”
In a speech Saturday at the convention in Germany, Johnson warned that Western sanctions would make it “impossible” for the president to respond to any aggression. Vladimir PutinGovernance to reach the city of London’s deepest capital markets.
He signaled global access to sanctions, including US measures, telling the BBC they would stop Russian companies “trading in pounds and dollars” – which he said would hit Russia “very, very hard”. .
The UK government has long been accused of turning a blind eye to the lucrative flow of Russian-sourced money through London, some of which has ended up in Conservative coffers, although Johnson’s party maintains that all of its Donations are legal.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported a list of elite party donors it said had privileged access to Johnson’s government, including Lubov Chernukhin, who was married to Putin’s former deputy finance minister. Vladimir Chernukhin,
British law on company and property ownership has also long benefited investors who wish to keep their involvement a secret, amid allegations that the Putin regime has too many assets abroad.
But Johnson said on Saturday that Britain intended to “open the Matryoshka dolls of Russian-owned companies and Russian-owned entities, to find the ultimate beneficiaries”.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meanwhile told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that unless Russia is stopped in Ukraine, Putin could potentially connect the Baltic states and the western Balkans “to the mid-1990s or even earlier.” would like to turn”.
And writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Home Secretary Preeti Patel The British media, pointing to past cyber “interventions” against telecommunications and energy infrastructure, said the “effects will be felt here too” if war breaks out, Russia was accused of.
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