British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a video released on Sunday, the day after his surprise visit to kyiv, that he had traveled on a train from Poland to the Ukrainian capital, paying tribute to the “iron people”. .
“Hello, I’m Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, traveling on a fantastic Ukrainian Railways train from Poland to Kyiv,” he announces in the video, where he appears standing at aboard a train, wearing a white shirt and a navy blue sweater.
“We call you here “people of iron”. It’s related to your profession, but it reflects your mentality, a real mentality that Ukrainians are showing in resisting the terrible Russian aggression,” he continued.
He also offered his condolences to the railway workers, victims of the strike of a missile on Friday against a train station in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, which left a total of 52 dead, including five children, who were preparing to flee .
Boris Johnson made an unexpected trip to kyiv on Saturday during which he promised Ukraine new weapons.
This visit had not been publicly announced by either party. This is the first time since the start of the Russian invasion that a G7 official has visited Ukraine.