London, June 18 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that his government plans to train Ukrainian forces which he believed could “change the equation” of the war, BBC reported on Saturday.

Johnson said this while meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky during a surprise trip to the nation’s capital Kyiv.

Johnson undertook this trip after pulling out of a conference of northern Tory MPs at the last minute and before the Wakefield by-election.

This is Boris Johnson’s second visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February.

He had been due to speak at a conference in Doncaster ahead of the by-election in Wakefield, which was triggered after Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

Boris Johnson’s response to the war in Ukraine is regarded within his party as something he has handled well.(UNI)