Geopolitics
Putin Claims Boris Johnson Personally Killed April 2022 Ukraine Peace Deal After Macron Call
Judging Freedom
Ray McGovern : Is War in Europe Expanding?
What was said
"Macron called me up and he said, no, no, no, the Ukrainians can't sign this deal. They had already initialed it if they have a gun to their head. So if you withdrew some troops from around Kyiv, that would do it. And says Putin, and we did, okay. Oh, but the next thing he says a comedian from Western Europe— he means Boris Johnson— comes in and says, no, no, no, you can't do this."
Vladimir Putin revealed in his press conference that France's Macron first demanded Russian troop withdrawal from Kyiv as a condition for Ukraine signing the April 2022 peace agreement that had already been initialed. After Russia complied, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally intervened to block the deal, according to Putin's account relayed by McGovern. This supports longstanding claims that Western powers deliberately sabotaged early peace negotiations.
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