19/02/2025 10:19
The Guardian
Diana Johnson defends Labour’s knife crime plan amid crisis in prison capacity in England and WalesPolicing minister Diane Johnson said this morning that the UK would “play our part” on security guarantees for Ukraine.Refraining from directly criticising US president Donald Trump, who claimed that Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia in 2022, several years after a previous Russian military campaign in 2014 illegally annexed Crimea, “should never have started” the war, Johnson said Britain was clear that Russia’s invasion had been “an act of war against a sovereign state.”We’ve also been very clear to say that Ukraine has to be part of any negotiations and yesterday the secretary of state Marco Rubio was saying that European countries and of course Ukraine has to be part of any negotiations. So I think the British position on this is very clear.These negotiations should involve the Ukrainians, they should not be excluded.They clearly were not in the room and after everything that Ukraine has been through, it’s almost exactly three years now since the invasion, it’s not right to have negotiations about the future of their country above their head. Continue reading...
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