West must not normalise relations with Putin again, says Boris Johnson

PM warns Russian success would spell end of freedom in Ukraine and compares invaded nation's struggle to UK Brexit vote

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The west must not make the mistake of normalising" relations with Vladimir Putin again after the invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson has said, as he warned that allowing Russia to win would herald intimidation from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

The prime minister gave his latest assessment of Russia's invasion of Ukraine at Conservative party conference, describing the Kremlin's actions a vicious and a barbarian attack on innocent civilians, the likes of which we haven't seen since the 1940s".