Johnson compared Putin to Slobodan Milosevic

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson today compared Russian President Vladimir Putin with Slobodan Milosevic, who died in his cell before the end of his trial before the International Criminal Court, where he was charged with genocide and genocide.

“There is a strong resemblance between Putin’s behavior and that of Slobodan Milosevic in recent years,” Johnson said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Spain’s El Pais and Germany’s Die Welt. “The two leaders have been in power for a long time, and both have become increasingly despotic, seeking to consolidate their position in their country and have found a great nationalist goal,” he said.

Johnson on Wednesday accused Russia of “war crimes” in Ukraine over the use of weapons against civilians. The International Criminal Court has launched an investigation into the matter.

Claiming that the Russians and Ukrainians are “one people,” Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in late February, which he described as a small-scale operation aimed at protecting Russian-speaking Ukrainians at risk of genocide. Recalling that Milosevic had invoked the need to “save” his people to justify the repression of Kosovo Albanians, Johnson said that “there is a very strong similarity between this catastrophic mistake and what the Russian president said about Kyiv.” and the roots of Russian religion and culture. ”

After the attack on the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and Europe, in Zaporozhye, Johnson also said today that he “has the impression that Putin has decided (…) to intensify efforts” in his military operations. “He finds no way out of the impasse where he is, except to continue the disasters, the extermination of the innocent population in innocent European cities,” he added, stressing that the West should impose even more sanctions on Russian interests.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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