THIS is the moving moment a tearful Ukrainian confronted Boris Johnson about the West’s failure to impose a no fly zone to protect innocent mums and babies from Putin’s missiles.
Daria Kaleniuk, a journalist who fled the war-torn nation to come to Poland, accused the PM of allowing humans to be shields against a sea of bombs, and said World War 3 had already begun.
Shaming Boris and the West for failing to do enough, she raged: “Ukrainian children are there taking the hit… our children instead of planes are protecting Nato from missiles”.
But a clearly shaken Boris said he cannot send British planes into the skies as it could spark World War Three – and told her bluntly: “The UK will not be able to do enough.”
In an emotional address at today’s press conference with the PM and Polish leaders, she told him that most of her family and team are still desperately trying to flee the war-torn nation.
As she broke down in tears, she said: “Women and children are in deep fear.
“The Ukranian people are desperately asking the West to protect our Sky. You can a no fly zone will trigger World War 3 but what is the alternative, Prime Minister?
“Our children, instead of planes, are protecting Nato from their missiles and bombs.”
It came as:
- Ukraine claimed Belarusian troops have invaded their country
- Russia’s 40-mile tank column was en route to Kyiv for a new onslaught
- Putin is believed to have unleashed terrifying “vacuum bombs” which can blow out people’s lungs
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of war crimes over the attacks of Kharkiv
- Liz Truss will spearhead a bid to suspend Russia from the UN Security Council today
- Brits are signing up to join up in Ukraine and fight Putin
- Brave civilians unleashed a molotov cocktail attack on a Russian tank as they fight back
- At least 16 children have been killed – including a little girl, 6, as her docs told reporters ‘show this to Putin‘
It is becoming “impossible” to cross the border now with more than 30km of mines set down by Russia, she warned.
She went on: “You are coming to Poland, not to Kyiv. You are afraid. Nato is not willing to defend. You are afraid of World War 3, but it has already started.
“The children there are taking the hit.
“We are crying, we don’t know where to run.”
She also lashed out at London for failing to slap sanctions on Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich.
The Russian billionaire, who is trying to give up control of the club, is thought to not have been sanctioned yet.
It came after HOAR revealed he has been effectively barred from living in Britain again – and hasn’t been seen at the club’s Stamford Bridge home for months.
The PM, who appeared to be moved by her emotion, said he was sorry it would be difficult, take time and that “there’s not enough we can do to help in the way you want”.
He admitted: “I have to be honest about that.
“With a no fly zone, the UK would be engaged in shooting down Russian planes, in direct combat with Russia, that’s not something we can do or have envisaged.”
He vowed to provide as much help to “tighten the economic noose” around Putin’s murderous regime and offered more military assistance to the Ukranian forces.
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BoJo was forced to admit: “here is going to be a period of suffering for the people of Ukraine for which Putin and Putin alone is responsible.
“It will take time for us to come through this period.”
And he called on Nato to “think much more” about how to protect and defend European security in the future, saying Ukraine’s invasion “has big implications on other countries as well”.
A huge 40-mile convoy of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles is today inching closer to the Ukrainian capital as fighting intensifies on the ground.
Kyiv was rocked by loud explosions overnight – after Russian airstrikes hit the Ukrainian capital.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, air raid sirens blared out across the city as police officers hurried people to shelters.
Putin’s troops are believed to be looking to surround Kyiv after earlier attacks by advanced forces were repelled in fierce battles.
Kyiv was bracing itself for a further onslaught after the Russians unleashed hell on Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv using deadly cluster bombs.
