London repeats it over and over again. By the voice of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, or even a Downing Street spokesperson, questioned on April 24 by the Financial Times :
“The UK is at the forefront of the international response to Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine.”
This response first takes the form of significant military support, with the dispatch of anti-tank weapons in January and the forthcoming delivery of anti-ship missiles. According to the Daily Telegraph, Her Majesty’s Army had also been training Ukrainian troops on British soil for a few days.
The diplomatic support, hailed as far as kyiv during Boris Johnson’s surprise visit to Ukraine in early April, testifies in parallel to the level of British involvement. Just like the particularly strong rhetoric of the Conservative government. Wednesday, April 27, “Liz Truss called for redoubled efforts in support of Ukraine and urged her allies to demand the full withdrawal of Russian troops from all Ukrainian territory so that it returns to its pre-2014 borders,” report it Guardian. A few days earlier, the Deputy Minister of Defense had, for his part, deemed legitimate any Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil. The larger illustration, too, of a “hardening” from the western position “as the conflict escalates”.
Convince the British political sphere
“If the United Kingdom has adopted this warlike posture against Russia, it is not only because a beleaguered Prime Minister is all too desperate to embrace a noble cause”, underlines the Financial Times. Certainly