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On Tuesday, Boris Johnson addressed Ukraine's parliament.

Thank you very much, Mr. President Volodymyr Zelensky.

President Zelensky, Mr. Chairman, it is a big honor for me to address you at this crucial moment in history.

There were references to Churchill.

This is Ukraine's finest hour.

Promises of more weapons.

We're sending many thousands of weapons of every kind.

And for the first time, an admission.

We who are your friends must be humble about what happened in 2014.

Because Ukraine was invaded before for the first time, and Crimea was taken fraught from Ukraine.

And the truth is that we were too slow to grasp what was really happening.

And we collectively failed to impose the sanctions then that we should have put on Vladimir Putin.

Slava, Ukraine, thank you.

But a recent Sunday Times investigation found that for years, people inside government had warned of the threat Ukraine faced in 2014 and in the years since.

Was the government just slow to grasp what was happening?

Or did it knowingly look the other way?

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvina Rana.

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