Boris Johnson tells Putin to ‘bog off’ and calls for EU to ‘just get on with the job’ and put troops in Ukraine

The former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Vladimir Putin to “bog off” and has called for EU troops to deployed to Ukraine.

Johnson has lost patience with Moscow and also Ukraine’s European allies, he told the annual Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference in Kyiv.

Johnson told the Kyiv Independent, “If they don’t want foreign troops on Ukrainian soil, I’ve got a brilliant idea — they bog off.

There’s only one country that’s put foreign troops on Ukrainian soil, and that’s Russia.

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He added, “We’re in danger of a kind of ridiculous chicken and egg situation here, or a trap by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, whereby all these so-called security guarantees and boots on the ground, none of that becomes relevant until such a time as there is a ceasefire or armistice.

“And the conditions for that deployment, if we insist on a ceasefire, may never be met.”

Johnson is saying that European troops to “just get on” with the job, get boots on the ground in Ukraine and don’t bother waiting for the Kremlin to give permission to a country that they do not own.

Johnson said, “Just get on with it,” he said when asked if Europe just needs the courage to cross what is yet another of Russia’s many red lines during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine which amounted to nothing.

“You need something that’s going to flip a switch in the Kremlin’s brain and make them realise that fundamentally, strategically, this is over.

And although it may be impossible to get Putin out of the bits he currently occupies, the cost of trying to get the rest is going to be too great… because the West has asserted its commitment.

“And the way for the West to assert its commitment would be to say, well, the Coalition of the Willing will start to arrive.”

Johnson said that EU troops would provide logistics and training and would not fight, as the “Ukrainians are much better than Western Europeans at fighting the war.

“But fundamentally, they’re going to be there to make the point that Ukraine decides what military forces come to Ukraine, not Russia,” he added.