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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucy Leeson

Streeting invokes Churchill’s ‘crocodile’ warning after Trump envoy calls Putin ‘humanitarian’

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said there is a “clear line between appeasement and a peace process” after Donald Trump’s chief negotiator on the Ukraine war described Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian”.

Speaking on BBC Newsnight on Thursday (22 October), the defence secretary said: “I understand when people are undertaking, you know, the path of diplomacy, that sometimes you might feel the need to be gracious to the host sitting in front of you.

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