British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his cabinet on Tuesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shouldn’t be pressured into a “bad peace” with Russia to end the fighting in Ukraine.
“He said it was vital that President Zelenskiy was not pressured into accepting a bad peace, noting that bad peace deals do not last. He said the world must avoid any outcome where Putin’s unwarranted aggression appears to have paid off,” a spokesman for Johnson told reporters.
The UK has been one of the more hawkish NATO members in the West’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine and has discouraged peace talks between the warring parties. Johnson had previously urged Ukraine not to negotiate with Russia.
Johnson’s warning of a “bad peace” came after former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to achieve peace, an idea Ukrainian officials have rejected. Earlier in the war, Russia said its demands for a ceasefire included Ukraine dropping its claim to Crimea and recognizing the independence of the Donbas republics.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated on Tuesday his stance on Russia’s demands concerning Crimea and the Donbas. “We have already lost too many people to simply cede our territory,” he said. “We have to achieve a full de-occupation of our entire territory.”
As the war grinds on, Russia has been making slow but steady gains in the east and Ukrainian forces have been taking heavy losses. Zelensky recently said Ukraine is losing between 60 and 100 soldiers each day.
. “We have already lost too many people to simply cede our territory,” he (Zelensky) said. “ So the fallacy of sunk costs overrides common sense — and common human compassion. Those orchestrating this puppet play believe it’s all some kind of stage production for their benefit.
Especially ehen the lead actor himself thnk it is a stage productikn. He has zero sympathy for people. I think even Nazi comanders surrounding Zelenski care more about soldiers they lost. Zelenski is utterly detached unless there is a prolaganda value.
Up until now he is not releasing the names of Bucha victims. The investigation cannoot happen independently as names will not be released.
Nobody should pressure Ukraine! Please do not pressure Ukraine!
Russia wiill never pressure Ukraine to humiliate itself and negotiate peace.
This is probably the ONLY thing West and Russia can agree on.
Peace bad, war good. Ugh. The aggression being “unwarranted” is the only problem the UK/US has with Russia. If only they had asked for our permission first, all would be well. We’ll fight to the last Ukrainian, no chance Z will ever get any smarter.
Easy to be brave and hard line sitting in an island nation that hasn’t been invaded since 1066 … try having a land border with Russia and Germany and see where that gets you.
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Why surrender to a midget?
Always the ad hominem attacks with you, Don.
Apparently he had some issues during his puberty that led to dwarfism.
Lame, Don, really lame.
To be more accurate, he has only got one testicle.
But a great heart and mind.
Ehh, I think you are confusing him with the pope.
The pope? Definitely not one with a great heart and mind.
Well, let’s not be so picky then, compared to mad vlad almost anyone would do.
You being so obsessed with Putin’s height leaves me to believe you might be even shorter than him. Even when standing on your hind quarters.
Sheep, I can assure you that Putin is forced to look up to me!
NO thermonuclear weapons, no standing in peer power confrontations. Bullshit talks and power and money walk. Putin’s lofty power and nuclear punch have him looking up to no one. Including his hypersonic ability to bring aid or ruin to whom or what he deems deserving!!!
/facepalm
It always come done to the nukes with you russkie lovers, because that’s all Moscow got.
Let me tell you one thing Sergey, developing atomic bombs isn’t that difficult, even North Korea could do it. If they wanted, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada etc could all have a nuclear arsenal that could turn Russia into a giant ash heap.
And yes, Putin is forced to look up to me for the rest of his life.
Is that when you’re standing on your hind quarters or all fours?
ROFL
Serbian leader is 6’6″ and he would make Churchill even more of dwarf as the old warmonger was only 5’5″. Alexander The Great, 5’6″. Zelensky the Dictator 5′ 7″
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Obama looking down at Putin, despite his high heels 🙂
Did Obama’s wife make him wear those heels?
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So biased against short people – you a racist too?
No Igor, I’m not a nazi like you.
Who knows if this oaf is racists. But look how he hectors Bianca, accusing her of being intoxicated. What could be more sophomoric than that?. Who here is more knowledgeable than Bianca????? I assure those here, that list is very short if it exists at all.
Oh, I’m sure you agree with that alcoholic that Amber Heard was responsible for what’s happening in Ukraine.
ROFL, get it together, Sergey!
Oh that hurt him, Pavlo
Silence, sheep.
The UK government is a poodle. no guts, no sense of any reality
Easy for Johnson to say; he’s not suffering any of the losses. If he feels that strongly, then the UK, independent of NATO, should just go ahead and declare war on Russia; and put his own people’s lives and treasure on the line, and see where it gets him. But these armchair warmongers never do that.
Hawks: Lives are worth nothing, better defend imaginary lines on a map than live in peace.
OSCE ignoring turned out to be a bad peace. Minsk 1 & Minsk 2 was a good peace when you didn’t buy Turkish Drones to cheat & fire over the pre Feb 2022 line-of-control. The UK is not a fair referee of Eastern Europe.
Immediately after the vote, he goes full-bore neocon warmonger (again).
The Neocons sought “full spectrum dominance” by “rebuilding America’s defenses”in their AIPAC Manifesto. But instead of raising America’s defenses and offencive power in peer nuclear power confrontations, they squandered time and trillions chaseing Muslims and Afghans in the mountains and deserts while Russia and China upped their game for the REAL peer power confrontations. Hypersonic missiles, peerless air defenses, faster, lighter cheaper and more nimble fighter jets. America has fallen close to a decade behind where it counts, in Great Game deterrence And NOW we can see how our very security was hijacked by the “Great War On Terror” the Neocons spun.
Ukraine is losing 20-30,000 troops a month. It will be over in the next couple months, at least in the east. Possibly much sooner as Ukraine morale is collapsing daily. And once it’s over in the east, the rest of Ukraine will be a cake-walk, as most of their most capable forces are being destroyed due to Zelenskyy’s refusal to allow them to withdraw from untenable positions.
I’d really like to see Russia drop a Zircon on Bojo. So would most of the British, I suspect.