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Published on Jul 29, 2014 Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is a “thug” and a “liar” , one of Britain’s most senior ambassadors has said, as the EU prepares to approve tough new sanctions against Kremlin. British ambassador to the United States Sir Peter Westmacott says West’s increasingly firm response to Russia over Ukraine and the downing of Flight #MH17 is beginning to have an impact on the Kremlin. Sir Peter said Mr Putin’s behaviour in Ukraine had been “thuggish, dishonest and reckless” and he “thought he’d done pretty well after he stole Crimea”. “It doesn’t look so good now,” he said on the US cable channel MSNBC, part of the NBC group. “It’s starting to look like this was the wrong call. This is a defining moment for what is going on in Ukraine. “We’ve had some very bad behaviour from the Russian side for a long time now, and now we’ve had this terrible atrocity — the shooting down of the aircraft. We have to change the cost/benefit analysis for Putin, fo