West 'didn't act early enough' on Russian threat - Truss

Vladimir Putin's build-up of troops on the border with Ukraine

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the West "didn't act early enough or decisively enough" in resp jonse to Russian President Vladimir Putin's build-up of troops on the border with Ukraine, Qazet.az reports.

"The reality is President Putin did not take the threats of deterrence seriously enough," she told MPs.

With the invasion of Ukraine, Truss said Russia had "shattered the security architecture of Europe".

“What we have to do now is we have to strengthen Nato, we particularly have to strengthen the eastern flank.”

 she told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday.

"We have already deployed more troops into Estonia, but there is more to do. We have to be serious about defence spending, right across Nato."