“If Ukrainians had been able to vote, Boris Johnson would still be in the saddle. And with full powers! ” This assertion of Corriere della Sera, both peremptory and ironic, can never be verified. However, the correspondent of the Milanese daily in kyiv seems rather sure of his shot. According to him, the now ex-Tory leader (and soon-to-be former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) “is Ukraine’s most popular politician, second only to ‘video-president’ Zelensky.”
A “adoration” which the former mayor of London won thanks to his unfailing support for the Ukrainian cause and which earned him sometimes folkloric displays of affection. “There is a street called Boris in Lviv, in Dnipro, in Kryvyi Rih, or in kyiv”, affirms the Italian newspaper, which recalls that a Ukrainian pop artist, Roman Bonchuk, even devoted a series of portraits