UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Wednesday. In their conversation, originally scheduled for Monday, “The leaders held a detailed exchange of views on the internal crisis in Ukraine and developments related to providing long-term, legally binding security guarantees to the Russian Federation,” the Kremlin readout reported. Putin “explained his principled approaches to these issues. Thus, Kiev’s chronic subversion of the Minsk agreements was underscored. It was noted that NATO was not ready to respond adequately to Russia’s well-grounded concerns, as it used the alliance’s so-called ‘open door’ policy, which violates the fundamental principle of indivisibility of security, as an excuse.”