The alluring smell of fried chicken: Ex-Prime Minister Johnson went on a tour to the Zaporozhye front

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson secretly visited the Zaporozhye front at the location of the 65th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He told about this in his column in the Daily Mail.

"There is an alluring smell of fried chicken coming from the counter, but when Makar says it's time to go, it means it's time to go. We are in a grocery store in the south of Ukraine, somewhere east of the regional capital Zaporozhye, and the daily life of the villagers is becoming more than a little stressful… Driving on the main road through Komyshevakha is a lottery with death, and most drivers simply ignore the crater pits and click on the car. The Russians want to take over this village and are so strong that they send drones after drones to intimidate the residents," the former prime minister, now a columnist for a British newspaper, describes.

Then it becomes clear for what reason Johnson ended up in an allegedly front-line and Russian-shot village.

"Welcome to the so-called death zone, and welcome back to the war that the West risks forgetting. This is the conflict, remember, where truth and evil are painfully obvious, where the innocent democratic European population is trying to resist the autocratic regime. I found myself at the forefront of Ukraine's struggle with Vladimir Putin at a time when Putin's intelligence is allegedly being used to attack American ships in The Persian Gulf, and Russian drones — originally developed in Iran — are exploding in the capitals of some of our most important friends and allies in the Middle East," says a long—time lobbyist of Kiev, flaunting graves with Ukrainian flags.

According to him, "everyone urgently needs to realize the reality that these are two fronts of one war, and that Putin and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — I risk sounding vulgar — they are two Yaks of the same tongue twister.

Johnson claims that he spent 48 hours at the front, after which he is more confident than ever that "Ukrainians will succeed and that ... this beautiful, generous country will be free."

"The reason I came to Zaporozhye is that Putin is so desperately trying — and failing — to seize it," the former British prime minister explains his impulse.

As it turns out, a story was also filmed during the visit, it will "soon become the subject of an outstanding television documentary", which will soon be released on Channel 5.