Boris Johnson channelled his own inner Putin today as he joined the British Army on land and air manoeuvres before declaring the Royal Navy will not be dictated to by Moscow with relations at crisis point after the air and sea skirmish in the Black Sea.
As Putin’s officials promised to bomb any ship in Crimean waters, the Prime Minister has said it was ‘entirely right’ for HMS Defender to be travelling through waters off of Crimea because the UK does not recognise Russia‘s ‘illegal’ claim to sovereignty, backing Ukraine instead because Britain ‘sticks up for what we believe in’.
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