Boris Johnson has said that a full-scale war in Ukraine is imminent as he announced the “first barrage” of sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Addressing a solemn House of Commons, the Prime Minister warned: “We must not brace ourselves for the next possible stages of Putin’s plan, the violent subversion of areas of eastern Ukraine by Russian operatives and their hirelings followed by a general offensive by the nearly 200,000 Russian troops gathered on the frontiers at peak readiness to attack."
“If the worst happens, then a European nation of 44 million men, women and children would become the target of a full-scale war of aggression, waged without a shred of justification to the absurd and even mystical reasons that Putin described last night.”
