In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed that the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson undermined a peace deal with Ukraine, potentially concluding the war 18 months earlier.
In a November interview last year, David Arahamiya, the leader of Ukraine's ruling party, disclosed that Johnson had thwarted a peace agreement, which could have halted hostilities a few months after the Russian invasion.
“They [Russia] were ready to end the war if we took neutrality—as Finland once did—and made commitments that we would not join NATO. This was the key point,” said Arahamiya.
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However, despite the negotiations going well, Johnson “unexpectedly arrived in Kyiv on April 9th, 2022” and told President Zelensky that he, “Shouldn’t sign anything with them at all—and let’s just fight.”
Putin himself confirmed that this is what happened during his conversation with Carlson.
Tucker said to Putin, “I think you’re saying you want a negotiated settlement to what’s happening in Ukraine.”
“Right. And we made it. We prepared the huge document in Istanbul that was initialed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation,” responded Putin.
“He had fixed his signature to some of the provisions, not to all of it. He put his signature and then he himself said, we were ready to sign it, and the war would have been over long ago. 18 months ago. However, Prime Minister Johnson came, talk to us out of it and we missed that chance. Well, you missed it. You made a mistake. Let them get back to that. That is all.”
Had Johnson not intervened to derail the deal, hundreds of thousands of lives, including both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, could have been spared.
However, the deep state's focus seemed to be fixated on steering Ukraine into an unwinnable conflict that persists with no apparent resolution in sight.
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