Boris Johnson draws up six point Ukraine plan to put to world leaders this week

Boris Johnson yesterday drew up a six point plan for the Ukraine war to be put to world leaders this week.

The PM said words must now be matched by actions adding: “The world is watching.

“It is not future historians but the people of Ukraine who will be our judge.”

The PM is to host leaders from Canada, Netherlands and Central Europe in London this week to deliver his blueprint for the future response to the war.

He will tell them that the world must:-

• MOBILISE the international humanitarian effort.
• SUPPORT Ukraine in providing its own self-defence.
• MAXIMISE economic pressure on Putin’s regime.
• PREVENT Russia’s occupation of Ukraine becoming accepted.
• PURSUE diplomatic solutions but only if Ukraine has a seat at the table.
• BEEFING up defence co-operation between Europe and the US.

Meanwhile Labour leader Keir Starmer offered to work with the PM to draft new laws to stop Russian oligarchs buying their way out of sanctions by using expensive lawyers.

Evacuees fleeing Ukraine-Russia conflict cross a destroyed bridge in the town of Irpin in the Kyiv region (REUTERS)

The former Director of Public Prosecutions said: “We are already behind the rest of the world in enforcing sanctions against oligarchs.

“We can’t talso give room to sue their way out of sanctions, while gagging the UK’s media. Lawfare is not the way we do things in this country.”

Sir Keir says rich Russians must be stopped from using so-called SLAPPs - strategic lawsuits against public participation - using high-cost blegal actions to silence those trying to expose them.

Service members of pro-Russian troops in uniforms without insignia drive an armoured vehicle in the separatist-controlled settlement of Rybinskoye (REUTERS)

Russia has now been condemned by 141 nations at the UN and 38 countries are demanding Vladimir Putin is dragged to the International Criminal Court for a war crimes trial.

Tomorrow (mon) Mr Johnson will greet Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Dutch PM Mark Rutte at No10 and on Tuesday he will host leaders of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

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Mr Johnson added: “Putin must fail and must be seen to fail in this act of aggression.

“It is not enough to express our support for the rules-based international order – we must defend it against a sustained attempt to rewrite the rules by military force.”