UK ‘sleepwalked’ on Ukraine crisis

The British government has been accused by a parliamentary inquiry of “sleep-walking” into the crisis over Ukraine.

The EU Committee of the House of Lords found there had been a “catastrophic misreading” of mood by European diplomats in the run-up to the stand-off between Russia and the West.

Despite Britain’s role as one of the signatories to an international agreement assuring the territorial integrity of Ukraine, it said the government “has not been as active or as visible as it could have been” in seeking to resolve the crisis.