In his latest column for the Daily Mail, Boris Johnson has criticised NATO for not giving Ukraine clear guidance on when they can join the alliance.
The former prime minister said Kyiv had done more than enough to demonstrate its fitness for NATO membership and that “no country is in greater need of NATO membership”.
“When will we learn the lesson of the past 20 years of handling Putin? It is our very ambiguity, our vacillation, our sucking-and-blowing-at-once, which has prompted him to invade,” he said.
“As long as Ukraine is deprived of those formal Article 5 NATO security guarantees that ensure the collective defence of all members, Putin will continue to inflict murder and mayhem — and to destabilise the world and the world economy.”
He added that membership of the alliance had worked for the Baltic states and Eastern Europe, therefore it was time to “get Ukraine into NATO as fast as we can”.
Mr Johnson was the UK’s prime minister when the war broke out and had been a key ally for Ukraine.
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