VLADIMIR Putin’s twisted TV mouthpiece has slammed the Russian army for not blitzing Odessa with missiles during Boris Johnson’s visit.
Fuming on Rossiya 1 state-funded TV, Vladimir Solovyov said the Black Sea port city should have been struck while the ex-PM was “hanging out there”.
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He said: “Excuse me, please, but why didn’t we strike Odessa when [Boris] Johnson [was] hanging out there?
“I really can’t understand it….”
Retired Russian general Evgeny Buzhinsky added: “I also can’t understand why. When will this political tourism stop….?
Adding to his onslaught, Soloyvov suggested Finland’s president Alexander Stubb, who visited Ukraine last week, should also have been targeted by Russian missiles.
He emphasised Russia should publicly warn Western politicians their lives would be in danger.
He said: “Why not officially announce that we do not guarantee the presence of these people on Ukrainian territory?
“They can come at their own risk, but we guarantee their insecurity in Ukraine.”
Hardliner Buzhinsky replied: “Well, you can declare it, or you can simply more actively destroy the railway [they use to travel on].”
Johnson was on a “morale boosting” trip to Russia before attending a conference in Kyiv to discuss plans for peace.
He has become a staunch enemy of the Kremlin after leading efforts to supply Ukraine with steel to help in the country’s defence against Russia.
Johnson also previously condemned US President Donald Trump’s “sick making” red-carpet roll-out for Putin in Alaska last month.
He told GB News: “Ukraine is a completely innocent wronged party.
“We all know that it was … sick-making to watch Putin being welcomed to America like that. We all know that.”
The summit, which was held to discuss a path for peace, saw Putin greeted by a military flyover and a red carpet.
The sweeping comments come as Russia’s threat to Nato members amplifies and Europe edges closer to an all-out war.
On Saturday, Nato was forced to scramble its F-16 fighter jets after a Russian attack breached Romanian airspace.
The nation’s defence ministry said they “detected a drone in national airspace” and tracked it until it disappeared from the radar near the Romanian village of Chilia Veche.
Meanwhile, last week, Poland’s capital Warsaw was forced to shoot down 19 Russian drones that had invaded the country’s airspace and trigger Nato Article 4, one below the threshold of war.
It marked the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that Nato has directly engaged with Vlad’s forces – pushing Europe inches closer to an all-out war.
Tusk warned Putin: “Anyone who decides in any way to attack Poland, Polish territory or Polish airspace, will always have to reckon with an adequate reaction.”
According to Zelensky, the swooping devices were a “test” by Russia to see how Nato allies would respond.
Answering calls from Poland and Ukraine, the UK vowed it would step up to meet Putin’s challenge and Nato vowed to defend “every inch” of allied land.
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