The UK and France will do “everything that is necessary” to support Ukraine and achieve lasting peace, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said in a newspaper piece co-written with his French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, external.
It comes in response to Putin’s allegation the UK and US have escalated the war by allowing Ukraine to use their missiles to strike inside Russia.
Instead, the pair say it was Russia’s “unprovoked full-scale war” that escalated the “largest war on the European continent since the Second World War”.
They also hold Putin responsible for the “annihilation of the global architecture that has been the cornerstone of international peace and security for generations”.