and the prime minister s official spokesperson has said that mr johnson has been very much spearheading the international response to this. some people have said that borisjohnson was not fully focused on this crisis because he has been dealing with the allegations of downing street parties and that the french president has actually had two calls with president putin in four days, whereas boris johnson with president putin in four days, whereas borisjohnson hasn t spoken to mr putin since december. the prime minister s spokesman said the totting up the number of calls is not necessarily early the sole arbitrating factor of how this is decided. mrjohnson has travelled on a chartered plane from stansted with some downing street staff and a small pool ofjournalists. the government has already announced that £88 million in aid is going to be sent to ukraine to support the country in this time of crisis.