The day before, Ukraine’s president, Volodimir Zelensky, called on the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Organization (NATO) to ban flights over the Eastern European country to prevent attacks by Russian military aviation.

Speaking to the press from the British embassy in Poland, Johnson explained, however, that the move would result in them having to engage in direct combat with Russia, and that is something, he said, that we cannot and do not intend to do. To do.

According to Britain’s Conservative rulers, the consequences of such an act would be extremely difficult to control.

Russia launched what it described as a special military operation in the Ukrainian autonomous region of Donbass on February 24, after the authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics asked for help to repel the Kyiv aggression.

Earlier, Moscow recognized the independence and sovereignty of the two regions and signed treaties of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with their leaders, which included the establishment of diplomatic relations and military assistance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the aim of the operation was to protect the population of Donbass from abuses and genocide by kyiv over the past eight years and to demilitarize Ukraine, whose government has requested membership in the North Atlantic military alliance.

Britain, the United States, the European Union and other NATO allies immediately accused Putin of attacking a neighboring country, and of imposing economic and financial sanctions against the highest representatives of the Russian State and Government, and against businessmen. , banks , airlines and ships of that country.

In this regard, Johnson, who traveled to Poland and Estonia on Tuesday to address the situation in Ukraine and visited British troops stationed at the Tapa military base, near the Estonian-Russian border, said the West was prepared for a protracted crisis. .

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