British Defense Secretary warns: “These are dangerous times. Putin doesn’t care how many people he kills”

Mr Shapps grimly stated that these were “dangerous times”, with threats not only in Europe but also in the Middle East and Asia. The defense secretary has described the fighting on the front line in Ukraine as a “meat grinder” – with UK intelligence this week revealing that around 450,000 people have been killed or injured. Russian soldiers.

Putin doesn’t care

But he said Vladimir Putin doesn’t care how many troops he sends or how many Ukrainians die. Mr. Shapps also promised that at a crucial moment, Britain will not stop fulfilling its obligations to Ukraine.

“If Putin won that war, he would not stop in Ukraine. He would go further, said the defense secretary. – He talked about other territories that he thought should be part of Greater Russia, essentially the old Soviet Union… Other autocratic leaders around the world would look at this and say the West can be defeated. It only takes a couple of years and we’ll all give up.”

“He doesn’t care how many people she kills”

“Now there’s a war in Europe, a major conflict in the Middle East, a much stronger China, North Korea, a potentially nuclear-armed Iran, which is causing all these regional problems… These are more dangerous times,” Shapps said.

Mr Shapps blasted Mr Putin for not caring how many of his soldiers are dying in the brutal war in Ukraine and called the Russian regime leader’s threats “escalating”.

“He doesn’t care how many people he kills. He doesn’t care how many people go through the meat grinder at the front,” said the defense secretary.

In late April, the United Kingdom said 450,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded in Ukraine, an average of 560 a day, since Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.

Estimates prepared by UK Armed Forces Minister Leo Docherty included 100,000. more casualties than Britain had estimated in February.