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Good morning. Boris Johnson has been chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee called in response to the invasion of Ukraine. He was woken overnight to be told of the attack, and before 5am this tweet went out in his name.
Shortly afterwards Downing Street issued this statement.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the early hours of this morning.
The prime minister said he was appalled by the unfolding events in Ukraine.
