High energy prices are a pain that UK households must endure as part of the effort to resist Vladimir Putin, Boris Johnson said during a surprise visit to Kyiv. The Prime Minister said “if we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood”.
Making his last trip to Ukraine before leaving office, Mr Johnson set out a further £54 million of military aid, including drones to target Russian forces. His meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky came on Ukraine’s independence day, marking 31 years since breaking from Moscow’s rule following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mr Johnson said Russian President Mr Putin had been “insane” to launch the invasion and the resistance had been like “an indomitable Ukrainian boxer”.
