She is probably not that keen in you saying the Ukraine, rather than using the country name of Ukraine ?
'The' relegates the country to a region status within USSR, and in my experience is not something Ukrainians like too much.
- Johnson probably went too far in publically saying this.
- There is a underlying point there of course, and a grain of truth, with Putin already redrawing European borders in Ukraine.
- We'll know with more clarity after the World Cup is over - if Putin then 'rolls his tanks' into the...