The West is essentially using Ukraine as a tool to fight Russia, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted, insisting that it should not hold back on arming Kiev.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph on Thursday, Johnson chastised the West for what he sees as a lack of resolve in supporting Ukraine, stressing that it should set aside concerns about potential escalation.

“The problem has not been escalation; the problem has been the failure to escalate fast enough. It has been the dithering, the delay, and the nickel-and-diming of the [support] measures,” he said, lamenting the gridlock in the US Congress in late 2023 and early 2024 which prevented aid from flowing to Kiev. “That was a nightmare for Ukraine,” he added.

The same was true for the initial reluctance to approve Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia using British, French, and US-made long-range missiles, Johnson claimed, noting that Germany is still resisting pressure to make a similar move.

It has been pathetic… Let’s face it: We’re waging a proxy war but not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. For years now, we’ve been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs, and it has been cruel,” Johnson stated.

According to the former prime minister, the West needs to make progress on Kiev’s accession to NATO, provide Ukraine with various military and logistical support without coming into direct conflict with Russia, and send it more money.

In addition, the international community, including Russia and Ukraine, “has to know where we… want this thing to end up,” Johnson stated. “Until and unless we clear it up, you won’t persuade [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to back down,” he claimed.  

Moscow has accused Johnson of derailing the Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul in the spring of 2022, claiming he advised Kiev to keep fighting. Staff close to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky have admitted that Johnson had an influential role. The former prime minister has denied the allegation as “an absolute steaming, stinking lie,” arguing that Kiev would never have agreed to Russia’s terms, which included the downsizing of the Ukrainian army and de facto recognition of territorial losses.

Moscow has repeatedly accused the West of using Ukraine as a “battering ram” against Russia, while warning that arms deliveries will not change the outcome of the conflict. It has also cautioned that the approval of strikes deep into Russia using foreign-made long-range weapons would be a serious escalation.  

After Kiev carried out several such strikes, Russia retaliated by attacking a Ukrainian defense facility with its latest Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile.

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Agents of the British Secret Intelligence Service have been involved in covert operations against Russia and on behalf of Ukraine, SIS head Sir Richard Moore has said.

The SIS was created by the WWII-era Special Operations Executive (SOE) and is also known as MI6. Moore made his admission in a speech at the British embassy in Paris on Friday, at the reception for his French counterpart, Nicolas Lerner of the DGSE.

“We cherish our heritage of covert action which we keep alive today in helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion,” Moore said at one point.

His admission came just a day after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson openly declared that Ukraine was a proxy of NATO in a war against Russia.

“Let’s face it: We’re waging a proxy war but not giving our proxies the ability to do the job,” Johnson told the Daily Telegraph, arguing that “the problem has not been escalation; the problem has been the failure to escalate fast enough.”

Russia has long known about the role of British – and American – intelligence operatives in Ukraine. Last month, Moscow’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, told the Security Council that “Western intelligence agencies, primarily the British MI6, have systematically prepared Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups to organize provocations at nuclear power plants in Russia.”

According to Ukrainian media, the UK has also pushed Kiev into military adventures such as the Krynki bridgehead, where hundreds of elite marines perished trying to create a foothold on the other bank of the Dnieper. British mercenaries have also taken part in the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region.

In February, the New York Times revealed an almost decade-long effort by the CIA to shape Ukraine into a weapon against Russia, implicating several allied intelligence services as well. The current head of Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR), Kirill Budanov, is among the operatives trained by American spies.

The CIA and the MI6 were on the ground in Ukraine as early as 2014, former Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) employee Vasily Prozorov testified in March 2019. Speaking in Moscow, Prozorov named some of the British agents who visited the frontline in the Donbass as well as the special forces training grounds in Berdichev.

In his speech in Paris, MI6’s Moore insisted that France and Britain were “united and unflinching in our determination to support Ukraine, for as long as it takes,” arguing that NATO can prevail because it has “many times Russia’s GDP and defense budget.”

“We should never doubt that our alliance has strength in numbers, both economic and military, and our unity of purpose makes that count,” the British spymaster claimed, adding that “Our democracy is our strength.”

https://www.rt.com/news/608431-mi6-covert-action-ukraine-russia/

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