BREAKING: Boris Johnson says Vladimir Putin is bent on 'full scale invasion of Ukraine'
as independent entities and signed an order for ‘peacekeeping’ forces to be sent in.
In response, Johnson said: ‘I’m afraid all the evidence is that Putin is bent on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.’ He said this would mean the ‘overrunning’ and ‘subjugation’ of a sovereign European country and said the results would be ‘absolutely catastrophic’. ‘Putin has now violated Ukrainian sovereignty, he has broken international law. We will immediately institute a package of international sanctions.’
After hosting an emergency Cobra meeting, the PM said: ‘This is I should stress just the first barrage of UK economic sanctions against Russia because we expect I’m afraid that there is more Russian irrational behaviour to come.’
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