Putin can't be trusted, says Boris Johnson

How do you deal with a crocodile when it is in the middle of eating your left leg? That sparked the difficulty of Ukraine's attempt to negotiate with Russia, which invaded its neighbor nearly four months ago, according to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

President Vladimir Putin can't be trusted, and Ukraine needs more military help urgently, Johnson said.

Putin is doing that. Johnson said in an interview with Bloomberg that he will try to call for a ceasefire, while he remains in possession of substantial parts of Ukraine.

Russian-backed separatists continued to push into strongholds in eastern Ukraine even as Putin sacked his offensive in the Donbas region. Ukraine's foreign minister warned on Thursday that the country's forces would struggle to stop Russia's advance on the east without more weapons, weapons and weapons. Johnson said that the country is facing a massive challenge despite the valor on the part of Ukraine's forces and President Volodymyr Zelensky. I am afraid that Putin is continuing to make slow and gradual progress, but I m afraid of palpable progress, and it is absolutely vital that we continue to support the Ukrainians militarily. Johnson said the West needs to expedite sending longer-range Multiple Launch Rocket Systems MLRS, something that Ukraine has been pushing for, though some worry that it could move NATO and Western nations closer to a direct confrontation with Russia.

Johnson said the world desperately needs the conflict to end. In an interview with Bloomberg, Johnson said that the end of the day is for Putin to accept that the denazification of Ukraine took place, and that he s able to withdraw with dignity and honor.

Putin and fellow Russian officials have claimed with no plausible evidence and despite Zelensky's Jewish heritage that a prevalence of Nazis among the ranks of Zelensky s government in Kyiv justified the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February.

Earlier this month, Dmitry Kiselyov, a Russian television presenter, news executive and propagandist, said Putin had threatened to obliterate the U.K. with his most powerful nuclear weapon, which could trigger a 1,600-foot radioactive wave.

Since the launch of Putin's full-scale war, the U.K. has stood alongside the U.S. and other NATO allies in support of Ukraine and Sweden and Finland's potential membership in the North Atlantic Alliance.