British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will speak tomorrow, Saturday, at the Munich Security Conference to call on Western allies to redouble their efforts to avoid a “serious miscalculation” that would “devastate Ukraine, Russia and the rest of Europe”.
(Also read: Ukraine accuses pro-Russian troops of bombing a kindergarten in Crimea).
“There is still a chance to prevent an unnecessary bloodbath, but that will require overwhelming displays of Western solidarity, beyond anything we have seen in recent history,” the prime minister will say, according to a Downing Street-previewed excerpt of the speech. that he will deliver at the Security Conference.
(You can read: Putin has already made the decision to attack Ukraine: Joe Biden).
The British head of government will urge his allies to speak “with one voice” to show the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the “heavy price he will pay” if he decides to give the order to attack Ukraine. “Diplomacy can still prevail,” he stressed.
Johnson, whose government believes that the Kremlin can give the green light to an operation on Ukrainian territory at any time and without prior notice.
London maintains that Russia has continued to accumulate troops on the Ukraine borderdespite his public statements about a troop withdrawal, and has added at least 7,000 more soldiers to his contingents in recent days.
(Read on: Russia – Ukraine: Recognizing Separatists Key to Invasion.)
The British Secretary of State for Security and Borders, Damian Hinds, affirmed today for his part that the West must “shield itself” against Russian “misinformation”. “We have to understand what is likely to happen. Anything will be presented as a spurious justification for an attack, for an invasion,” Secretary Hinds said.
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