Johnson tells Putin invading Ukraine would be ‘tragic miscalculation’

UK prime minister and Russian president agreed in phone call that aggravation was in no one's interest', says No 10

Boris Johnson has told Vladimir Putin that he will make a tragic miscalculation" if he invades Ukraine, in a phone call delayed since Monday and preceded by Russian insults.

Putin, the Kremlin said, had complained that Russia's demand for justifiable security guarantees had not been met. The Russian president also told Johnson that Kyiv was involved in the chronic sabotage" of the Minsk agreements designed to reach a political settlement in the east of Ukraine, including greater autonomy.