UK guilty of 'catastrophic misreading' of Ukraine crisis, Lords report claims

The UK is guilty of sleepwalking into the crisis in Ukraine and has not been as active or visible as it should, according to a report into the British and European approach to the crisis by the main Lords committee on foreign affairs, the Guardian reported.
The report – the fullest evaluation of the Ukraine crisis to emerge from parliament – also finds that expertise within the Foreign Office towards Russia has diminished significantly, and according to the committee chairman, Lord Tugendhat, “led to a catastrophic misreading of the mood in the run-up to the crisis”.
The committee also warns that as a signatory to the 1994 Budapest memorandum, setting out the protection Europe would give Ukraine, “the UK had a particular responsibility towards the country and it has not been as active or as visible as it could have been”.