The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed Vladimir Putin is bent on a “full-scale invasion of Ukraine” as the Russian president faced widespread condemnation for ordering troops over the border, Report informs, citing foreign media.
“I’m afraid all the evidence is that President Putin is indeed bent on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the overrunning, the subjugation of an independent, sovereign European country, and I think, let’s be clear, that will be absolutely catastrophic,” the PM said. “If Vladimir Putin continues down this track of violence, of aggression, of a full-scale invasion, of encircling Kyiv itself which is what he seems to be proposing to do, capturing the Ukrainian capital, it is vital that that effort, that conquest of another European country, should not succeed and that Putin should fail.”