Downing Street has issued a furious rebuke to claims by Russia of the UK being the "main instigator" of global conflict. The Prime Minister's spokesman said it was "completely farcical" as it was Vladimir Putin who "launched an unjustified invasion on a sovereign country" with his brutal onslaught in Ukraine . The spokesman said: “Well, it's completely farcical. "There is just one country that has launched an unjustified invasion on a sovereign country that has abducted around 19,000 children,