A Russian invasion of Ukraine is ‘inevitable and imminent’, senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has warned.
The stark warning comes after a massive cyber-attack on Ukraine left much of the country without heat, light and access to money.
‘We had the opportunity to place sufficient military hardware and personnel in Ukraine to make president Putin think twice about invading but we failed to do so.’‘He has negotiated himself into a corner and after Nato refused to bow to his threats seemingly only one option remains.’ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss condemned Russia’s military build-up on the Ukraine border and called on Moscow to ‘halt its aggression’.
Russian troops return home from a ‘peacekeeping’ mission in Kazakhstan, amid the ongoing escalation in Ukraine
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