Saturday, December 11, 2021

UK Foreign Secretary Warns Russia Of 'Severe Consequences' Of Ukraine Invasion

UK Foreign Secretary Warns Russia of ‘Severe Consequences’ in Event of Ukraine Invasion



The Kremlin, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the country’s military have reiterated repeatedly that Moscow has no intention of ‘invading’ anyone amid weeks of increasingly shrill claims by Western media and officials that Russia may be preparing to launch aggression against Ukraine.
Any Russian incursion into Ukraine would be a “mistake,” and Moscow will be made to pay a “severe” economic penalty in case of aggression against its neighbour, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned.


Truss, seen as a potential challenger to beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the Tory leadership amid revelations that senior officials held multiple holiday get-togethers last Christmas even as ordinary Britons were forced into strict lockdowns, assured the think tank that London and its allies would continue to work to “deter Russia” from any hostile action in Ukraine.
“What we’re doing this weekend is working with like-minded allies to spell that out,” the foreign secretary said, referring to the summit of G7 foreign ministers set to kick off Saturday in Liverpool.

Truss’s comments come in an atmosphere of growing tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine, with the US and its allies claiming that Moscow is concentrating troops on the border with its neighbour and possibly preparing to invade. Russian officials and the military have dismissed these claims as “propaganda” and fearmongering.


Russia and some Ukrainian politicians have also expressed concerns that Kiev and its Western patrons may be preparing to try to resolve the stalemate in eastern Ukraine by force amid a lack of progress on peace negotiations. This week, Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Ilya Kiva warnedthat Kiev may be preparing some kind of provocation against Russia in the new year, seeking to “kill two birds with one stone” – allowing the West to impose new sanctions against Moscow, while helping the Ukrainian government “write off their failures,” the “hunger and cold” faced by the population “on the war.”





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