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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Johnson tells Putin invading Ukraine would be ‘tragic miscalculation’

A Ukrainian serviceman on the frontline in Donetsk.
A Ukrainian serviceman on the frontline in Donetsk. Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images

Boris Johnson has told Vladimir Putin that he will make a “tragic miscalculation” if he invades Ukraine, in a phone call delayed since Monday and preceded by Russian insults.

Putin, the Kremlin said, had complained that Russia’s demand for justifiable security guarantees had not been met. The Russian president also told Johnson that Kyiv was involved in “the chronic sabotage” of the Minsk agreements designed to reach a political settlement in the east of Ukraine, including greater autonomy.

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