What happened? The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson acknowledged that the West's reaction to the annexation of Crimea and russia's attack on Donbas in 2014 was too slow. The Prime Minister stated that it was inadmissible to repeat this mistake in the future.
Source. Johnson said that in his address to the Verkhovna Rada (the Supreme Council of Ukraine), Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Quote: “We, who are your friends, must be humble about what happened in 2014. Because Ukraine was invaded before for the first time, when Crimea was taken from Ukraine and the war in the Donbas began. The truth is that we were too slow to grasp what was really happening and we collectively failed to impose the sanctions that we should have put on vladimir putin then. We cannot make the same mistake again,” he said, addressing the Ukrainian parliament.
Previously. The office of the British Prime Minister announced that Britain intended to provide military assistance to Ukraine for another 300 million pounds ($375 million).