The former Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for British troops to defend Ukraine’s borders which would be part of a ceasefire deal.
He said peace-keeping duties will have to be provided by a multinational group of European countries and Johnson likened Vladimir Putin to “Hitler.”
Johnson told The Telegraph, “I don’t think we should be sending in combat troops to take on the Russians.
“But I think as part of the solution, as part of the end state, you’re going to want to have multinational European peace-keeping forces monitoring the border [and] helping the Ukrainians.
“I cannot see that such a European operation could possibly happen without the British.”
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He said the West will have to be transparent over any funding of security guarantees offered to Ukraine as part of the ceasefire deal.
He said Ukraine should join the alliance, he said, “The only thing that really works is a NATO Article 5 guarantee that has kept the peace in Europe for 80-years.”
“It’s the reason the Baltic states are in NATO. It’s the reason that the Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Finns and the Swedes are now in NATO.”
Johnson told The Telegraph that Putin is like Germany’s WWII leader with his rhetoric over Ukraine and that Russia is acting “straight out of Hitler’s playbook.”
He added, “And as with Hitler, unless he is resisted, it will get worse.”
