Liz Truss: I Will Be Ukraine’s Best Friend, Following In Boris Johnson’s Footsteps

• 29.07.2022, 10:15

The frontrunner for the British Prime Minister post will seek the strategic defeat of Russia.

British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said that if she is elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, she will continue the policy of comprehensive support for Ukraine in the war against Russia, writes Reuters.

According to the source, Truss promised she would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy straight away if she wins the office.

“As prime minister I will be Ukraine's greatest friend — following in the footsteps of Boris Johnson — and commit completely to ensuring Putin fails in Ukraine and suffers a strategic defeat, and that Russia is constrained in the future. This conflict is in the balance, and now is not the time for soundings off about concessions and compromises to an appalling dictator...I am the candidate the British people can trust on Ukraine, and that they can trust to defend our freedom at home and abroad.”

Truss is vying to become the new prime minister against former finance minister Rishi Sunak in a leadership contest. Truss leads in opinion polls among Conservative Party members, who will ultimately decide who will become Britain's next prime minister after weeks of voting on September 5.