Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson played a key role in derailing a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, telling Ukraine to “just continue fighting,” top Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia has said. Arakhamia, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction, was the chief negotiator at the botched peace talks in Istanbul, held early into the ongoing conflict.

The MP made the bombshell revelation on Nov 24, 2023 in an interview with the Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel. He said

“Russia’s goal was to put pressure on us so that we would take neutrality. This was the main thing for them. And that we would give an obligation that we would not join NATO. This was the main thing.”

When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kiev and said that we would not sign anything with [the Russians] at all. And [said] ‘let’s just continue fighting.’

👉This war could have ended 4 years ago. Every single death on both sides of the conflict would be on his conscience, if he had one.