UK defence secretary says he would like to kidnap Putin

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has said that if he could, he would kidnap Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

Source: the Kyiv Independent, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Healey said that if he had the chance to kidnap any world leader, he would "take Putin into custody and hold him to account for war crimes".

Healey said that Russia's war crimes include "what I saw in Bucha on one of my first visits to Ukraine" and "the abduction of some of the Ukrainian kids that I met in Irpin".

Pointing to the Kyiv apartment building behind him, which had been damaged in a drone strike, Healey said that it "tells you all you need to know about President Putin and his determination not just to wage a war on Ukraine, but to target civilians, cities, the infrastructure that people absolutely critically depend on in the middle of winter". [N.B. Ukrainska Pravda does not recognise Putin as president – ed.]

"This is a man who must be stopped. This is a war that must be stopped. And our mission is to support Ukraine in its fight today and to help work to secure the peace for the moment," he added.

Background: US President Donald Trump has said he doesn't think it will be necessary to order Putin's capture as he did with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, because he believes the war in Ukraine can be resolved.

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