Ukraine deserves better than Boris Johnson


Source: newstatesman.com newstatesman.com

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The former prime minister visited Kyiv again this weekend. Photo by Ukrainian Presidency/ Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images For a few brief moments on Sunday 22 January it was as though Boris Johnson was the British prime minister again. He strode through central Kyiv, quilted jacket flapping, tie askew, to greet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. As the waiting camera crew filmed, Johnson promised to be “a foot soldier, a spear carrier”, in the effort to help Ukraine. He assured Zelensky, “I will do whatever I can.” Yet even as Johnson was playing the statesman in Kyiv he was enmeshed...