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'I will not trigger a European war. But what I will do is help Ukraine': UK defence secretary

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25 February, 2022, 01:40 pm
Last modified: 25 February, 2022, 03:12 pm

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'I will not trigger a European war. But what I will do is help Ukraine': UK defence secretary

Putin says Russia is carrying out "a special military operation" to stop the Ukrainian government from committing genocide against its own people - an accusation the West calls baseless

Reuters
25 February, 2022, 01:40 pm
Last modified: 25 February, 2022, 03:12 pm
British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace gives an update on Ukraine developments at the House of Commons in London, Britain, 21 February, 2022. PHOTO: UK Parliament/Roger Harris/Handout via REUTERS
British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace gives an update on Ukraine developments at the House of Commons in London, Britain, 21 February, 2022. PHOTO: UK Parliament/Roger Harris/Handout via REUTERS

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Friday that the UK doesn't want to start a European war, but will help Ukraine fight off the Russian invaisaion. 

"I will not trigger a European war. But what I will do is help Ukraine fight in every street with every piece of equipment we can get to them," Ben Wallace said, adding "Putin is not rational. He doesn't believe the Baltic states are really countries. We all have to stand up to him", reports the BBC.

He also said that Russia intends to take the whole of Ukraine but the Russian army failed to deliver on the first day of its invasion

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Russia launched its invasion by land, air and sea on Thursday following a declaration of war by President Vladimir Putin, in the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.

Missiles pounded the Ukrainian capital on Friday as Russian forces pressed their advance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded with the international community to do more, saying sanctions announced so far were not enough.

"It's definitely our view that the Russians intend to invade the whole of Ukraine," Wallace told Sky.

Putin says Russia is carrying out "a special military operation" to stop the Ukrainian government from committing genocide against its own people - an accusation the West calls baseless. He also says Ukraine is an illegitimate state whose lands historically belong to Russia.

Wallace cast Putin, Russia's paramount leader since 1999, as illogical.

"I certainly think he has gone full tonto," Wallace said. "No-one else in their right mind would do what we are seeing on our telly screens today."

Russia says Western leaders are gripped by Russophobia and that the United States and its allies have been plotting to undermine Russia for decades.

Wallace said the Russian army had failed to deliver any of its key objectives, directly contradicting the Russian defence ministry which said it had achieved all of its main aims on the first day of the military operation.

"Contrary to great Russian claims, and indeed President Putin's sort of vision that somehow the Ukrainians would be liberated and would be flocking to his cause, he's got that completely wrong, and the Russian army has failed to deliver, on day one, its main objective," Wallace said.

Russia, Wallace said, had lost more than 450 personnel so far.

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