prominent British clown Boris Johnson visited Ukraine in the weeks after Russia's invasion.
With NATO backing he successfully argued with Zelensky and no doubt other Ukrainian leaders against agreeing to settlements negotiated between Moscow and Kiev, which had reached an advanced stage.
this has been widely reported including by the NYT.
and so the war gathered pace, and here we are more than two years later of bloodshed and destruction.
resolution of this catastrophe won't come on the battlefield, on which both sides have suffered enormously, but through diplomacy.
