{"id":322937,"date":"2026-02-11T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322937"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:28:30","slug":"former-czech-pm-andrej-babis-accuses-boris-johnson-of-blocking-2022-istanbul-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322937","title":{"rendered":"Former Czech PM Andrej Babi\u0161 Accuses Boris Johnson of Blocking 2022 Istanbul Peace Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Criminal Watch \u2013 Feb 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Former Czech PM Andrej Babi\u0161 Accuses Boris Johnson of Blocking 2022 Istanbul Peace Deal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In April 2022, Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kiev to ensure that President Zelensky didn’t sign any peace deal with Russia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babi\u0161, has leveled serious accusations against former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the collapse of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the early months of the war. In a statement addressing the conflict\u2019s history, Babi\u0161 alleged that a resolution was imminent during the 2022 talks in Istanbul but was deliberately sabotaged by Western intervention.<\/p>\n

Referencing the diplomatic engagements that took place shortly after the full-scale invasion began, Babi\u0161 claimed that a ceasefire agreement was nearly finalized. However, he asserts that the trajectory of the war was altered by external pressure from London. According to the Czech politician, Boris Johnson \u201cacted like a slave to arms dealers\u201d and effectively dictated to the Ukrainian government that they must not sign the proposed treaty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2022 in Istanbul, while peace was almost complete, Boris Johnson, acting like a slave to arms dealers, dictated to the Ukrainian government that the agreement must absolutely not be signed,\u201d Babi\u0161 stated. He further argued that this specific geopolitical intervention has had catastrophic humanitarian consequences, stating that the decision \u201ccost the lives of millions of Ukrainians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The narrative presented by Babi\u0161 centers on the controversial period in the spring of 2022 when negotiators from Kyiv and Moscow met in Turkey. While multiple reports have since surfaced regarding the tentative terms discussed at that time, Babi\u0161\u2019s comments specifically highlight the role of the military-industrial complex and Western leadership in prolonging the hostilities. By characterizing Johnson as being beholden to \u201carms dealers,\u201d Babi\u0161 suggests that financial interests took precedence over diplomatic solutions.<\/p>\n

These remarks represent a sharp deviation from the current official foreign policy stance of the Czech Republic and the broader NATO alliance, which largely attributes the failure of the Istanbul talks to Russian inflexibility and the revelation of war crimes in liberated territories such as Bucha. Babi\u0161\u2019s statement underscores the growing polarization within European politics regarding the retrospective analysis of the war\u2019s management and the heavy cost of the continued conflict.<\/p>\n

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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has accused former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of sabotaging peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, claiming that negotiations were close to success before Johnson’s intervention disrupted the process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322975,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322937\/revisions\/322975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}