Johnson also made the statement that "China is preparing to start arming Russia"LONDON, February 20.
/tass/. Former British Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss consider it necessary that Ukraine's Western allies hand over fighter jets to Kiev. They stated this on Monday evening during a debate on the situation in Ukraine in the House of Commons of the British Parliament.
"There can be no conceivable reason to postpone the transfer of tanks to Ukraine. We need this technique - Abrams, Challenger, Leopard - to start changing the situation on the battlefield in real time in the next few weeks, and not within a year," Johnson said. - It is wonderful that we offer to train Ukrainian pilots to control NATO fighters, but it is curious that we are doing this in the absence of a fundamental decision to provide them with aircraft. So let's get down to business and hand them the fighters."
Johnson also made the statement that "China is preparing to start arming Russia," calling this the reason why the West should step up arms supplies to Ukraine. In addition, he called for rethinking what should be "considered a Ukrainian victory and considered Ukraine." According to him, the West should help Kiev "not in restoring the borders as of February 24, 2022, but the borders of 1991."
Johnson also believes that the kingdom will have to actively participate in the development of a peaceful solution for Ukraine, without repeating the mistakes of the past, one of which the ex-prime minister believes that after 2014 London ceded Berlin and Paris the right to participate in a peaceful settlement. At the same time, according to him, "it cannot be said that the Normandy format, this process was successful."
Truss, for her part, noted that the UK and its allies "need to do everything possible so that Ukraine wins as soon as possible." According to her, for this purpose, among other things, it is necessary to transfer fighters to Kiev.
She also called for the use of Russian assets frozen by Western countries to restore Ukraine and said that the lifting of sanctions against Russia should be linked to the implementation of reforms by Moscow.
