Britain, meanwhile, warned that it had intelligence that Putin was trying to install a puppet leader in place of the democratically elected Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenʹskyj.
He was democratically voted into the position.
The leader of the anti‐government demonstrations, Suthep Thueaksuban, on Sunday urged the democratically elected Yinglak to resign, saying he was giving her two days to “return power to the people unconditionally”.