Liz Truss

The UK and its Western allies must “double down” to push Russian forces out of “the whole of Ukraine” and secure a victory that is a “strategic imperative ...

But China “will not continue to rise” if Beijing does “not play by the rules”, she warned. “And they had an eye on their global reputation. And defence budgets must be increased across the Western world.

Speaking at Mansion House in London, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Russian forces must be pushed "out of the whole of Ukraine".

If the economy of a partner is being targeted by an aggressive regime we should act to support them. “The G7 should act as an economic Nato, collectively defending our prosperity. She said: "The war in Ukraine is our war. “China is not impervious. And we have choices. In the short term, she said Western allies must “double down” on support for the government in Kyiv, providing the heavy weaponry it needs “to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine”.

Britain and its allies are putting the security of Europe at risk by “pumping” Ukraine with weapons, the Kremlin has said as it warned the west was “testing ...

In a keynote foreign policy speech, Ms Truss said the UK must strengthen its military while building alliances with other nations around the world. She added ...

If the economy of a partner is being targeted by an aggressive regime we should act to support them. “Access to the global economy must depend on playing by the rules. She added that the G7 group of leading industrialised nations should behave as an "economic Nato" that work together to defend collective prosperity. “Russia is able to block any effective action in the UN Security Council. Putin sees his veto as a green light to barbarism,” she said. "China needs trade with the G7. We represent around half of the global economy. In a keynote foreign policy speech, Ms Truss said the UK must strengthen its military while building alliances with other nations around the world.

THE WAR in Ukraine could span a decade, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is said to believe in a bleak forecast of the conflict strangling Eastern Europe.

All the decisions on this matter have already been made." "But we won’t brag. Calling for Western allies to do the same, she said they must "double down" in their efforts "to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine."

TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA) – UK foreign secretary Liz Truss has said that the Ukraine conflict can last for years, urging the West to increase its military aid ...

She said the UK was digging deep into its inventories, including heavy weapons, tanks and aeroplanes, to defend Ukraine and other countries threatened by Russia. And I want everyone to know that.” “We have all the tools for this, things no one else can boast of having now.

António Guterres visits Borodianka outside Kyiv where Russian forces are accused of massacring civilians.

He also denied Nato was locked in a “proxy war” with Russia, but said the west would provide increased support to Ukraine if the Russian attacks continued. Guterres was accompanied by local military and civilian governors who showed him residential buildings that had been destroyed in Russian attacks. “Such aggression against Russia cannot remain without an answer,” Zakharova said. “It is, of course, for Finland and Sweden to decide whether they would like to apply for membership in Nato or not,” Stoltenberg said on Thursday. “But if they decide to apply, Finland and Sweden will be welcomed with open arms.” The war is evil. “The war is an absurdity in the 21st century.

The foreign secretary's belligerent comments on Russia reduce Ukraine to a pawn in the Conservatives' power struggle, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins.

Ukraine appears to be approaching what could be a final battle with Russia in the south, possibly followed by stalemate and some sort of settlement. As was indicated in the Minsk negotiations of 2015 and mooted in Istanbul in March, there will have to be compromise if this is not to become an ongoing agony. An eventual deal will have to embrace Ukraine’s security and a degree of autonomy for Donbas. This will be messy. Meanwhile anyone who disagrees with them can be dismissed as a weakling, a coward or pro-Putin. That this conflict should be hijacked by Britain for a squalid forthcoming leadership contest is sickening. It cannot award Putin victory but it would probably acknowledge the “Russian-ness” of Crimea and south-east Ukraine, if not of Odesa. There have been indications that Zelenskiy will accept something of this sort. That conflict did not necessitate the involvement of the rest of Europe or the US. But Truss declares that Putin wants to inflict “untold further misery across Europe”. She offers no evidence for what is a gross and alarmist assumption, with the implied need for western military retaliation. It is also a reason for the common humanity of welcoming Ukrainian refugees, which Johnson’s immigration policy has hypocritically denied. It is hard to imagine a more delicate and dangerous time for such antics than now. Putin will settle as and when he feels he has reached his military limit, which is why there is good reason for sending Kyiv weapons. Putin may be a monster and a liar and we are right to send aid to the people he oppresses, but a strategist should look beyond insults to assess risks and probabilities on the ground. The use of the word “we” publicly identifies Britain’s interests with Kyiv’s. Truss calls for ever more economic and military aid to be sent to Ukraine, and such aid now teeters on the brink of overt engagement with Russia. She appears to want Russia’s other dissident neighbours, Moldova and Georgia, to join the alliance. It is not unknown for democratic leaders to play war games to excite their electorates, but this must be the first Tory leadership contest fought on the frontiers of Russia.

Analysis: west's punishment, payment and prevention approach to ending war could leave Putin cornered.

She also seems optimistic that China ultimately will draw back from supporting Putin since it will not want to be on the losing side. Her allies point out that Putin has previously threatened but not carried through on a nuclear response to the crossing of Russia’s red lines. It encourages Putin’s growing tendency to present his “special military operation” not as a limited liberation of the Donbas, but as a systemic struggle with Nato in which Ukraine merely becomes the first military battlefield. But it is possible that some of what Truss is canvassing is no more than an attempt to counterbalance what the UK fears will be the German or French proclivity to slip back into old dialogue patterns with Moscow. It may also be that Truss sees little political downside in being the coldest of cold war warriors inside the cabinet. The UK has long said that not only must Putin fail in his war, he must also be seen to fail. In this view she gained the support of the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, on Thursday. She also agrees with the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, that Russia must end the war so weakened militarily that it cannot repeat its threats not only to Ukraine but to Moldova and the Balkans.