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The British Boris Johnson and the Polish Mateusz Morawiecki traveled to Kiev, Tuesday, February 1, to display their support for Ukraine and once again put Moscow warning against the temptation of an invasion of the country. “Our packet of sanctions is ready, the United Kingdom will impose them as soon as Russia has set up on the Ukrainian territory,” warned the British Prime Minister at a joint conference with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. that the presence of 100,000 Russian border soldiers fears an offensive.
On the same line – alarmist – that the US president, Joe Biden, Johnson still assured that he “is clear, according to our information, that there are preparations for an imminent military campaign.” He also announced a help of 88 million pounds sterling [nearly 106 million euros] to support Ukraine’s “governance” and “energy independence”. London had already sent about 2,000 anti-tier missiles to Kiev mid-January.
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The British media and its political opponents presented this visit of Mr. Johnson as an attempt to escape the “PartyGate”, the scandal of the holidays held at Downing Street in full confinement. Since the beginning of 2022, Mr. Johnson, held to save his position, has delegated the Ukrainian crisis to his ministers of defense and foreign affairs. Monday, he had even had to cancel a call with Vladimir Putin, to be justified in the House of Commons.
VIEW OF POLAND, the Diplomatic Offensive of Mr. Morawiecki, who, after an interview with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal, promised “support for energy, defense, support to support The stability of the Ukrainian economy, as well as humanitarian aid, also intervenes very late. His visit to Kiev is the first since his appointment as Head of Government, at the end of 2017. Relationships have consistently cooled between Warsaw and Kiev since the arrival of the National Conservative Party Right and Justice (PIS) in 2015. The privileged relationship That Poland had in the past with his oriental partner and his status as “the main lawyer” of the Ukrainian cause in the EU, was sacrificed on the altar of a historical resentment policy. And Polish diplomacy has been ambiguous since the government is looking for an alliance with European slovenist and far-right parties with close relationships with Moscow.
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