British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Moscow on Wednesday (November 17th) against the “
tragic error
” that any “
military adventurism
” would constitute on the borders of Ukraine and Poland, in a context of growing tensions in the region. “
We need to make sure everyone understands that the cost of miscalculating the borders in both Ukraine and Poland would be enormous,
” Boris Johnson told UK parliamentary committee heads. "
I think it would be a tragic mistake for the Kremlin to think that there is anything to be gained by military adventurism,
" added the head of the conservative government.
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The situation in the region has been very tense since Russia's 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula.
For more than seven years, Ukraine has been in conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern part of its territory.
Tensions have escalated in recent days, with the United States and the European Union expressing concern over a recent deployment of Russian troops to the country's border.
Poland is facing an influx of thousands of migrants at the border with Belarus.
If Warsaw considers Russia as the real sponsor of the migration crisis, against the backdrop of Russian-Western tensions, Moscow has rejected these accusations.
The EU, which was destabilized in the second half of the 2010s by an unprecedented influx of migrants, accuses the Belarusian authorities of having orchestrated the current crisis in revenge for Western sanctions decided in retaliation for an unprecedented domestic political repression .
President Alexander Lukashenko, while denouncing European behavior and denying any responsibility for the crisis, assured Monday to work on the return of migrants, mostly from Iraq.