UK & Sweden Say Relations With Putin Can Never Be Normalized, Sign Defense Pact

"British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena
Andersson in Sweden on Wednesday and agreed that relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin should never be normalized.

“The leaders agreed that the aftershocks of Putin’s abhorrent invasion of Ukraine had fundamentally changed international security architecture,” a spokesman for Johnson said following the meeting. “They underlined that relations with Putin could never be normalized.” ZH