Western officials said the incident highlighted the "morale challenges" facing Russia's flagging invasion of Ukraine.
“It's a sad indictment of our times," one person said in response to the confession.
“Unless urgent steps are taken to address this, we will see very small numbers of people taking up this offer and a lot of the public’s generosity squandered," the Labour shadow secretary said.
“I don’t think those two situations are directly analogous, clearly they are not directly analogous and I don’t think the prime minister was saying that they were directly analogous," the chancellor said.
Putin hailed the “special operation” in Ukraine and claimed he was seeking to free the Donbas region from “genocide”.
He said the West “doesn’t even bother to hide that its aim is to damage the entire Russian economy, every Russian”.
“Boris Johnson, please, show some humanity," the man, who experienced the devastation of the Second World War as a child, said.
"It's only March, but you, sir, have just posted the dumbest thing I'll see on Twitter all year," one person replied.
The campaign comes as world attention is gripped by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has overshadowed other humanitarian crises across the world.
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