Boris Johnson has warned Russia that it would face sanctions the moment the “first Russian toecap” stepped further into Ukrainian territory.
Speaking on a visit to Kyiv where he held talks with President Zelensky of Ukraine, Johnson accused President Putin of trying to “redraw the security map of Europe”, adding that the continent was in a “critical” moment.
In his first comments on the standoff with the West over Ukraine in more than a month, Putin said that the US was trying to goad Russia into war as an excuse to impose tougher sanctions on Moscow.
The Russian president, who will speak to Johnson by phone tomorrow, claimed that Washington’s ultimate goal was to hinder his country’s development and that it was using Ukraine as
