February 11, almost two weeks before the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Defense of Great Britain Ben Wallace held negotiations with Russian colleague Sergei Shoiga regarding the possible side effects of such a scenario. It is reported by The Washington Post and shares the details of a previously not published conversation.
The material says that Wallace, during his visit, wanted to ask once again if there was a place for negotiations regarding the requirements of Vladimir Putin to expand NATO and the activities of the Alliance in Eastern Europe. Shoigu, however, showed “no interest in the topic.”
Then the British minister warned his colleague that Russia would encounter frantic resistance, if he decided to invade Ukraine, to which he replied that “Russia and Ukraine are one country”, and “his mother is Ukrainian.” However, he assured that they do not plan to unleash the war.
to the Wallace warning about future sanctions and what harm they can do to the country, Shoigu assured that “Russians can suffer like no other” and added that they more unbearable “tolerate the Western trajectory of Ukraine.”
He looked into my eyes and said: “We do not plan to invade Ukraine,” recalls Wallace. This shows how false Russians – the authors of the material write.