Foreign Minister Liz Tras said that “this is a time for courage and not for attention” among the nations that are helping Ukraine fight the Russian invasion. “Heavy weapons, tanks, planes – digging deep into our stocks, increasing production. “We have to do all this,” Tras said during an annual foreign policy speech at the Mansion House, home of the Lord Mayor of London. NATO countries have supplied Ukraine with military weapons and equipment, including missiles and armored vehicles. However, they were reluctant to send fighter jets – despite calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – for fear of escalation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has already accused NATO of waging a proxy war against Russia. Western officials deny it, saying the conflict is between Russia and Ukraine over Russia’s illegal invasion of its neighbor. Britain has sent 450 450 million ($ 565 million) in military aid to Ukraine, including thousands of missiles. However, despite Troy’s call for a jet, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman Max Blaine said there were no “plans” to send planes to the UK. He did not rule out the possibility of Britain sending planes to another country, such as Poland, which would then give its own jets to Ukraine, but said there were no “concrete plans” to do so. Trash said Russia’s attack on Ukraine should be a wake-up call for international institutions that have failed to prevent an invasion. “The architecture designed to guarantee peace and prosperity has failed in Ukraine,” he said. “The economic and security structures that developed after World War II and then the Cold War have been bent so far to allow instead of limiting aggression.” Trash called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “desperate rogue operator” who was destroying world order and distorting international institutions. “Russia is able to prevent any effective action in the UN Security Council, where it has a veto power as a permanent member,” he said, adding that the Club of 20 Rich and Emerging Nations “could not function as an effective economic body.” remains on the table “. In response, Trash called for a new focus on “military power, economic security and deeper global alliances” between the “free nations”. After years of declining military spending in many countries, including Britain, he said NATO’s goal for countries to spend 2% of their gross domestic product on defense should be “a floor, not a ceiling”. Trash also called for tougher economic sanctions on Russia, saying the West should cut off Russian oil and gas imports “once and for all.” This would be easier for Britain to do than for many other European nations. “If Putin succeeds, there will be unspeakable further misery across Europe and dire consequences around the world,” he said. “We would never feel safe again. “So we have to be prepared for the long term and double our support for Ukraine.”
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