Prime Minister Boris Johnson has downplayed President Vladimir Putin’s estimated 35 nuclear threats since launching his military operation – insisting instead that he would be able to overcome the Ukrainian resistance by conventional means. In an interview marking the end of the NATO summit in Spain, Mr Johnson told LBC’s Nick Ferrari: “I think it is very, very important that we do not allow ourselves to be swayed by this kind of rattling. “Because basically, what Putin is trying to do is to rephrase it against Russia against NATO. “It is not. It is his attack on a completely innocent country, with conventional weapons, with artillery, with airstrikes, with shells and so on. “And this is the right of Ukrainians to be protected. That is what this is about. “And what we had today in NATO was, once again, for the alliance to be tested, questioned, interrogated. Are we solved? Are we determined? Will we give the Ukrainians the means to protect themselves? “And the answer was absolutely yes and, if nothing else, the power of unity is greater than it was before.”
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