Vladimir Putin scandalously claimed last night that he had been read to sign a deal to end the war with Ukraine 18 months ago, but Boris Johnson scuttled the deal.
The Russian President sensationally claimed that the former Prime Minister “dissuaded” the leader of Ukraine’s main party from signing the document and said that “it was better to fight Russia.”
Putin claimed that negotiations had taken place in Istanbul and that Ukraine signed the deal, but backed down under pressure from Johnson, who said it was “better to fight Russia.”
The despot made the stunning accusations during the highly anticipated two-hour interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
He claimed that Davyd Arakhamia, the head of Ukraine’s ruling party, put his “preliminary signature” on the deal after direct negotiations with Russia in Istanbul.
Putin was allowed to speak unopposed for long periods of time while giving a rambling history lesson on Russia dating back to the year 800.
Vladimir Putin scandalously claimed last night that he had been read to sign a deal to end the war with Ukraine 18 months ago, but Boris Johnson scuttled the deal.
The despot made the stunning accusations during the highly anticipated two-hour interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The Russian president sensationally claimed that the former Prime Minister “dissuaded” the leader of Ukraine’s main party from signing the document, saying “it was better to fight Russia.”
Putin said: “But then he (Arakhamia) publicly declared to the whole world that we were ready to sign this document, but Mr. Johnson, then Prime Minister, came and dissuaded us from doing it, saying that it was better to fight Russia.” .
‘They would give everything necessary for us to return what we lost during the confrontations with Russia. And we agreed with this proposal.”
Mr Putin continued: ‘And the fact that they obey the demand or the persuasion of Mr Johnson, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, seems ridiculous.
‘And it is very sad for me because, as Mr Arakhamia said, we could have stopped those hostilities with the war already a year and a half ago. But the British persuaded us and we rejected it. Where is Mr. Johnson now? And the war continues.”
He accused the United States of telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to refuse to negotiate any deal and said he wanted to reach a deal.
“And we did it,” he said.
‘We prepared the enormous document in Istanbul, signed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation. He had affixed his signature to some of the provisions, not all of them. He put his signature and then he himself said: we were ready to sign it and the war would have ended a long time ago. Eighteen months ago.
“However, Prime Minister Johnson came and spoke to us and we lost that opportunity.” Well, you missed it. You made a mistake. Let them get back to that.’
The Kremlin previously suggested Johnson’s trip to kyiv in April 2022 as an intervention to derail any peace deal and would have caused Russia to withdraw its troops.
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, alleged late last year that Johnson “forbid” Kiev from signing a peace deal.
