Live / Boris Johnson says the conflict in Ukraine is a “perfect example of toxic masculinity”

At least two people were killed and three wounded during a shelling in Mykolaiv earlier in the day, the regional governor and the city’s mayor said, according to The Kyiv Independent.

One of the injured is a member of the rescue and salvage team that is still at the scene.

Mayor Oleksandr Senkevyc reported that Mykolaiv was hit by eight Russian missiles and encouraged residents to flee the city.

Mykolaiv Oblast Governor Vitaliy Kim added that two people were killed and three wounded, including a rescuer, in the attack. The rescue operation is underway.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 29, 2022

Reuters reports that the number of victims is higher: three dead and five injured. According to the news agency, the Russian missile hit a residential building in the southern part of the city.

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Boris Johnson has said that Russia would not have invaded Ukrainian territory if Vladimir Putin had been a woman, suggesting that the Russian leader’s gender played a role in how he decided the course of the conflict.

In an interview with German radio ZDF, after the G7 meeting at Schloss Elmau, the British prime minister said on Tuesday that he did not believe that the Russian leader “would have embarked on this crazy war” if “he had been a woman”.

In Johnson’s opinion, “what is happening in the Ukraine” is “a perfect example of toxic masculinity”, quoted by The Guardian.

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