Boris Johnson meets Zelensky in Kyiv to offer more support
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Boris Johnson has travelled to Ukraine for the second time to meet Volodymyr Zelensky in a fresh show of support.
The prime minister was in Kyiv this morning to discuss further military backing for the country as it seeks to repel Russian forces.
Johnson is increasingly concerned that European allies including Germany and France will attempt to pressure Zelensky into accepting a “bad peace deal”.
His visit comes the day after Emmanuel Macron, the French president, Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, and Mario Draghi, the Italian prime minister, made a joint trip to Ukraine.
During today’s meeting Johnson offered to launch a “major training operation” for the Ukrainian army, saying that Britain could train 10,000 soldiers every 120 days.
The programme would “change the