Boris Johnson has gone ballistic over President Donald Trump’s deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on diesel fuel. The man who swooped into Kiev in the spring of 2022 to tell Ukraine’s now acting President Volodymyr Zelensky not to sign a peace agreement with Moscow, called Trump’s arrangement with Putin “sickening,” and “outrageous,” the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

'Why should Putin be allowed to destroy Ukrainian energy infrastructure—as well as murdering countless civilians—if the Ukrainians are forbidden from responding?” BoJo raged on. “I doubt that Putin has the diesel to ship to the US but if he tries to go via the English Channel I hope it is intercepted by the Royal Navy.”

He added: “The Ukrainians are valiantly trying to protect themselves and their families from threats of bombardment. We should be helping them and the best way to get this over and get the price of fuel down is to make Putin see sense. It’s ridiculous to try to appease Putin and it won’t make a bean of difference to the price of fuel.”