Vladimir Putin and Boris Johnson to discuss Ukraine by phone on Wednesday evening
February 2, 2022, 5:19 pm

Vladimir Putin and Boris Johnson to discuss Ukraine by phone on Wednesday evening

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The US News reported, according to Reuters, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are scheduled to discuss Ukraine by phone on Wednesday evening.

The Kremlin had earlier said it would provide details if and when Putin spoke to Johnson and that Putin was ready to talk to anyone, including the "utterly confused".

Ushakov noted that Johnson had visited Kyiv on Tuesday.

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Johnson used that visit to accuse Putin of holding a gun to Ukraine's head in a bid to bully the West into redrawing the post-Cold War security map of Europe.

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Ushakov said the Kremlin hoped that Putin and Johnson would also discuss UK-Russia relations, which he said were at a very low level.

Source: usnews

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BENEFIT, the Kingdom’s innovator and leading company in Fintech and electronic financial transactions service, has sponsored the BuildHer CityHack 2025 Hackathon, a two-day event spearheaded by the College of Engineering and Technology at the Royal University for Women (RUW).
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