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Johnson acknowledges that a Russian military victory in Ukraine is a real possibility.

Putin has a huge army. [But] he has a very difficult political position because he's made a catastrophic blunder. The only option he now has really is to continue to try to use his appalling, grinding approach - led by artillery - trying to grind the Ukrainians down. And he's very close to securing a land bridge in Mariupol.

Now, the situation is, I'm afraid, unpredictable at this stage. You've just got to be realistic about that.

We've got to look at what more we can do militarily. We've got to keep intensifying the economic sanctions. And that's what we're doing. We want to make sure that there is wave after wave of intensifying pressure on Putin.

One of the things that have been really effective in the sanctions that we've seen so far is the ban on tech transfer to Russia and that really makes a difference ... We'll be making sure that we don't allow any loopholes of any kind and we will take steps to make sure that stuff does not go through other routes to Russia.