Boris Johnson said he believes Putin intends to ‘double down’ on his onslaught, envisaging ‘no way out’ but to ‘continue with the destruction’. The PM's comments come after Russian troops seized the continent’s largest nuclear power plant.
In an interview with foreign media on Friday, Mr Johnson said of the call: ‘He rang me to say something that I agreed with profoundly, which is: an attack on a nuclear power plant or an explosion at a nuclear power plant are clearly a matter of our common European health and safety.‘We remember what happened with Chernobyl, the radioactive clouds spread over the whole continent, and indeed, also to North America, as far as I can remember.
Asked how nuclear plants can be protected, he said: ‘We have to make clear to the Kremlin that a civilian nuclear disaster in Ukraine, another Chernobyl, is a disaster for Russia as well as for everybody. ‘He sees no way out of the cul-de-sac that he’s in, except to continue with the destruction, the pulverising of innocent populations, in innocent European cities.
‘We must not accept the narrative of Vladimir Putin that this is about him versus Nato, or him versus the West.’
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