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 the Schloss Elmau hotel in the Bavarian Alps region on Tuesday, the UK prime minister said he did not believe the Russian leader “had embarked on this crazy war. she was a woman.”

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

The situation in Ukraine was one of the items on the agenda of this Tuesday’s meeting of the G7, during which a commitment was reached to apply 4,700 million euros in measures to deal with “food insecurity” caused by the war . More than half of the fund comes from the United States of America, it was announced.

The conflict in Ukraine is the central axis of the NATO summit, which takes place this Wednesday in Madrid, Spain, also with the participation of the British Prime Minister. According to the statement, Johnson will encourage members of the Atlantic Alliance to investigate the modernization of their defenses, warning that the next decade will be more dangerous and competitive than the previous one.

Moscow responds to Johnson: “Old Freud will have dreamed all his life of such an object of study”

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, responded to Boris Johnson’s statements by stating, ironically, that “old Freud will have dreamed all his life of such an object of study.”