Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sharply criticized Western governments for “doing nothing” to pressure Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.Johnson responded to Wednesday’s overnight drone and missile barrage that killed at least 27 people and injured 91 as of the latest, saying Moscow was “murdering women and children” as the West holds back some of its most powerful economic tools. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“Why won’t we systematically take out the shadow fleet? Why won’t we give the Ukrainians the hundreds of billions of frozen assets? And why the hell is the UK – of all countries – now buying Russian aviation fuel, even if it has been refined in third countries, under a loophole recently opened by Keir Starmer?” Johnson said.He continued: “The Russian president is going to lose his revolting war, which he never should have started,” but argued that Western reluctance to escalate economic pressure is slowing progress toward meaningful negotiations.Fuel loopholes and sanctions gapsJohnson’s remarks focused heavily on three areas where he believes Western policy is falling short – Russia’s so-called shadow fleet used to transport oil, frozen Russian state assets, and a UK loophole permitting imports of aviation fuel refined from Russian crude in third countries.His criticism of the UK’s aviation fuel policy centers on trade licences that allow Russian-origin fuel, once refined elsewhere, to enter the British market, bypassing a ban on direct Russian oil imports from December 2022.