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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Boris Johnson says Trump only aims to shock Europe over claims Ukraine started war with Putin

Boris Johnson has reacted to Donald Trump’s claims that Ukraine started the war with Russia, as the president came under fire for branding Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator.

The former prime minister said the US president’s statements on Ukraine - which were the latest in a series of controversial interventions by the Trump administration - “are not intended to be historically accurate, but to shock Europeans into action”.

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