Johnson Says Stop Russian Sanction-Breaking Ships

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00:00Moving on to a topic that's very close to your heart is the war in Ukraine.

00:04During your time as Prime Minister, you were the first world leader to visit Ukraine.

00:07You led what's now dubbed the Coalition of the Willing.

00:10What in your mind does peace ultimately look like in Ukraine?

00:15I hope that peace will look like, I don't know what the exact geography of Ukraine will be.

00:22I hope that Russia will get out of as much as possible.

00:25They can be persuaded to withdraw as much as possible.

00:28I mean, it's pointless holding on to this land.

00:31They'll have to spend a huge amount of money remediating it, investing in it.

00:35They're better off out of it.

00:37But I hope it will involve a free, sovereign, independent Ukraine.

00:42That's the most important thing.

00:45And I think it will.

00:48And the faster we get to that solution, the better.

00:51And we need to speed up because this war has been going on for three and a half years.

00:56And as Donald Trump rightly says, too many people are being killed.

01:01And it can end.

01:02It should end.

01:04And, you know, I would do several things to bring it to an end as fast as possible.

01:09I would, number one, I would take that.

01:11Here's $300 billion of Putin's money frozen in a bank account called Euroclear in Brussels.

01:18Maybe, you know, the biggest chunk is in that bank account.

01:23That money could be taken unfrozen and given to the Ukrainians in advance as a down payment

01:30on the bill the Russians will have to pay for reparations.

01:36You know, and that would be huge.

01:39Let's see, that's a serious amount of money for Ukraine.

01:42$150, $200 billion.

01:43You know, $300 billion.

01:44That would sort them out for at least two years, right?

01:48Putin would look at that and think, ah, God, I've got to keep fighting for two more years.

01:52Putin's economy is, you know, not looking good right now.

01:56Number two, the weapons that the Ukrainians have, they should be given the permissions

02:01to send those weapons to take out the Russian bases.

02:04You know, Putin's bombing Ukrainian cities every night with drones, with missiles.

02:09They're coming from these bases in Russia.

02:11The Ukrainians should have the permission to take out those bases

02:13and do more to take out the Russian oil refineries.

02:18Number three, I think that we need to be doing more to crack down on the shadow fleet.

02:26You know, Putin's got all these oil tankers that are breaking the sanctions.

02:31Putin's, you know, I mean, something should happen to them to stop this.

02:37I would, you know, stay within the law.

02:40You tell people on board the boats that their time's up, they must get off,

02:44but then they should, we should stop this.

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