UK warns against post-Ukraine reset with Putin

By AFP 19 March 2022, 4:28 pm

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the Conservative Party Spring Conference at Blackpool Winter Gardens in Blackpool, northwest England, on March 19, 2022. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

The West must not try to “normalize relations” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after his invasion of Ukraine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says, calling the crisis a “turning point for the world.”

“There are some around the world… who say that we’re better off making accommodations with tyranny… I believe they are profoundly wrong,” the British leader tells his Conservative Party’s Spring conference in Blackpool, northwest England.

“To try to renormalize relations with Putin after this, as we did in 2014, would be to make exactly the same mistake again, and that is why Putin must fail.”

“This is a turning point for the world and it’s a moment of choice. It’s a choice between freedom and oppression,” he adds.