Boris Johnson says Zelensky's position is 'pretty maximalist'

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, agreed on a call this week that they would continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, including artillery, reported from  Reuters.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said any peace talks over Ukraine are likely to fail.

"How can you negotiate with a crocodile when it's got your leg in its jaws? That's the difficulty that the Ukrainians face. We have just got to keep going with the strategy, keep supplying them with weapons," he said.

Johnson said the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had told him that he was confident of pushing Russian troops out of the eastern Donbas region, but that his forces were unlikely to recapture Crimea, which Russia seized eight years ago.

"The view of the president of Ukraine, if I understood him correctly, I speak to him a lot, is he would actually like Russian forces to be expelled from their existing positions in Donetsk and Luhansk. So that is a pretty maximalist position, but on Crimea they are not as maximalist," he said.

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