Boris Johnson has vetoed a Ukrainian no-fly zone again, despite expressing his horror at a Russian strike on a maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol yesterday (Wednesday).
Official reports from Ukraine claimed that the attack killed three people, including a child, and injured 17 others. It led to renewed calls from President Volodymyr Zelensky for Western warplanes to intervene. However, Mr Johnson said that while Vladimir Putin had abandoned “all norms of civilised behaviour”, a no-fly zone would bring the UK and Nato into direct conflict with Russia – something he was determined to avoid, reports PA.
Speaking on Sky News’s Beth Rigby Interviews, he acknowledged that some of his conversations with Mr Zelensky had been “deeply upsetting” as the Ukrainian leader appealed for more help.
