The UK Defence Secretary has accused Vladimir Putin of going “full tonto” over Ukraine and compared him to Tsar Nicholas I during the Crimean War.
In off-camera comments Ben Wallace said his old regiment, the Scots Guards, had “kicked the backside” of the tsar in the Crimea and “we can always do it again”.
The jingoistic comments came as the Cabinet minister chatted with serving military personnel at the Horse Guards building in Westminster.
