Putin should be tried in court not assassinated, says Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson does not back calls for the assassination of Vladimir Putin, but wants to see the Russian president held to account in front of an international court, Downing Street has said.

A No 10 spokesperson said the PM does not agree with US Senator Lindsey Graham, who has called for ‘somebody in Russia’ to assassinate the president in order to bring the invasion of Ukraine to an end.

Mr Johnson thinks Putin and his associates should instead be tried by an international court for the war crimes they have ordered in Ukraine, the spokesperson said.

The comments came as former prime minister Gordon Brown called for the creation of a special tribunal to try those responsible for war crimes in Ukraine, modelled on the Nuremburg trials of prominent Nazis after the Second World War.

And the Metropolitan Police announced that officers from its war crimes team are gathering evidence in support of the International Criminal Court’s investigation into alleged atrocities in Ukraine, announced on Wednesday.

Commander Richard Smith, head of the Met’s counter-terrorism command, which includes the war crimes team, said that evidence “could be in the form of direct messages, images or videos that friends or relatives here in the UK have been sent by those in Ukraine. Or it could be somebody who was previously in Ukraine and who may have witnessed or even been a victim of a war crime and has since travelled to the UK”.

Sen Graham has sparked controversy in the US by calling for those in the higher echelons of the Russian regime to emulate the killers of Julius Caesar and the high-ranking Germans who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

“Is there a Brutus in Russia?” he asked. “Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?

“The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country — and the world — a great service.”

Asked whether Mr Johnson would echo the senator’s call, the Downing Street spokesperson said: “No. We stand with the Ukrainian people in demanding the immediate end to the Russian invasion.

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Putin should be tried in court not assassinated, says Boris Johnson

Putin should be tried in court not assassinated, says Boris Johnson

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