(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 13 - The British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has compared Western diplomatic efforts to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine to the agreement with Nazi Germany before the Second World War.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, the London minister said "there is an atmosphere reminiscent of Munich in some Western countries" referring to the conference held in the city of Bavaria in 1938 which handed Adolf Hitler parts of the then Czechoslovakia in an attempt, which failed. , to avoid the great conflict in Europe.
For Wallace, Vladimir Putin could send his troops massed on the borders to Ukraine "at any time".
"What is worrying is that despite the increase in diplomatic efforts, the military build-up has continued. It has not stopped, it has continued", underlined the Minister of Defense of Britain.
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