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Re: Ukraine's finest hour

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"The West was too slow to act over Russian aggression in Ukraine, Boris Johnson has told Ukrainian MPs.

Addressing the Ukrainian parliament via video link, he said Ukraine's allies "cannot make the same mistake" as they did over the 2014 Crimea invasion.

He said the West had been "too slow to grasp what was really happening" and "failed" to collectively impose sanctions against Vladimir Putin.

Details of £300m of extra military aid were also announced by Mr Johnson.

The military aid to be sent to Ukraine in the coming weeks will include electronic warfare equipment, a counter-battery radar system, GPS jammers and night-vision devices.

Introduced to MPs in Kyiv by the Ukrainian parliament's speaker, Mr Johnson said Ukraine's allies must be "humble" as the nation was previously invaded in 2014 when Russia seized Crimea, and began the war in Donbas.

"We cannot make the same mistake again," he said.

The UK prime minister praised Ukraine's resistance for standing up to Russian forces.

He said: "You have exploded the myth of Putin's invincibility and you have written one of the most glorious chapters in military history and in the life of your country.

"The so-called irresistible force of Putin's war machine has broken on the immoveable object of Ukrainian patriotism and love of country."

He also echoed the words of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, just as Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky did when he addressed MPs at Westminster in March.

Speaking to Ukrainian MPs in the chamber holding Ukrainian and Union flags, he said: "This is Ukraine's finest hour, that will be remembered and recounted for generations to come.

"Your children and grandchildren will say that Ukrainians taught the world that the brute force of an aggressor counts for nothing against the moral force of a people determined to be free."

Following the speech - the first address to the Ukrainian parliament by a world leader since the conflict began - President Zelensky described the UK and Ukraine as "brothers and sisters"."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61297478

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Ukraine's finest hour
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 03 May 22 12:05 AM 		Msg. 45623 of 54959

Boris will also give a speech to the Ukrainian parliament, which will declare the defence against Russia their country's finest hour - an echo of Churchill's speech during the Second World War when Britain, its empire and dominions stood alone against Hitler. And, lest we forget, Russia was with the Germans at that point as well.

Churchill's speech is burnt into my country's national identity.

"What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e] last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

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