Vladimir Putin ‘is not rational’ and ‘won’t stop’ after invading Ukraine, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned.
had ‘failed to deliver’ on its ‘day one’ objectives, he said, adding that they have lost more than 400 troops as well as a significant airport initially captured by elite Spetsnaz units.that ‘diplomacy is absolutely off the table’.
The Cabinet minister told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘It’s not about risk, as much as I care for my personnel. It’s not about risk.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatHe added: ‘I have said continually for a long time, as has Britain, and the Prime Minister has supported this position, that Putin is not rational.
‘And we will have to stand up to it. Now, I cannot trigger a European war and I won’t trigger a European war. But what I will do is help Ukraine fight every street with every piece of equipment we can get to them, and we will support them, and that is the reality.’supports HTML5 video He also told the Commons that the UK is working with allies to set up a ‘particular international war crimes tribunal for those involved in war crimes in the Ukraine theatre’.
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