Johnson compares Putin to a “crocodile”.
In an insulting statement, the British prime minister compared talks with Putin to a dialogue with a crocodile, claiming that this is why Ukraine’s peace talks with Russia are likely to fail.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it’s unlikely that Ukraine and Russia can make peace through negotiations, comparing talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to dealing with a “crocodile.”
“I really don’t see how the Ukrainians can easily sit down and come to some kind of accommodation. How can you negotiate with a crocodile when it’s got your leg in its jaws?” Johnson said Wednesday on a flight to India, The Guardian reported.
“I think it’s very hard to see how the Ukrainians can negotiate with Putin now, given his manifest lack of good faith and his strategy, which is evident, which is to try to engulf and capture as much of Ukraine as he can and then perhaps to have some kind of negotiation from a position of strength or even to launch another assault on Kyiv,” the prime minister said.
Johnson said that as a result, the UK and the rest of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would have to continue their strategy of supplying arms to Ukraine, per The Guardian.
