Healey: I would like to kidnap Putin and hold him to account for his war crimes
Vladimir Putin is the world leader that I would like to kidnap, the Defence Secretary has said.
In an interview with the Kyiv Independent, John Healey said he would take the Russian president into custody for his alleged war crimes.
"I'd take Putin into custody, hold him to account for these war crimes," Mr Healey said.
"Hold him account for what I saw in Bucha on one of my first visits to Ukraine, and for the abduction of some of the Ukrainian kids that I met in Irpin."
The Defence Secretary made the controversial remarks during a visit to Kyiv, where he discussed further details of the military plans for the Multinational Force for Ukraine with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and defence minister Denys Shmyal, which is already operational in the French capital.
The Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP referenced Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, where mass graves were found after Russia's full-scale invasion in April 2022.
More than 1,400 civilian killings took place in the district, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office.
It comes as news that Russia has now been fighting in Ukraine longer than it did during the Second World War against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
In response to the Defence Secretary’s contentious suggestion, Maria Zakharova, an official from the Russian foreign ministry, said that the statements were "wet dreams of British perverts".
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