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No immediate plans to send British military instructors to Ukraine, says Rishi Sunak
(www.theguardian.com)
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To date, Britain and its allies have avoided a formal military presence in Ukraine to reduce the risk of a direct conflict with Russia.
British defence secretary Grant Shapps, who was appointed to the role last month, said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that he wanted to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, in addition to training Ukrainian armed forces in Britain or other western countries.
“What the defence secretary was saying was that it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine,” Sunak told reporters at the start of the Conservative party’s annual conference in Manchester.
Sunak’s comments came as the former defence secretary, Ben Wallace, said he had urged the prime minister to increase military support to Ukraine by more than £2bn – a rise of 50%.
Writing for the Daily Telegraph, the former Scots Guard lamented that the UK was no longer Kyiv’s biggest military backer in Europe, having slipped behind Germany.
In the US, Joe Biden has urged politicians to “stop playing games” and secure more funding for Kyiv, while in Slovakia, populist former prime minister Robert Fico won parliamentary elections having vowed to withdraw his country’s military support for Ukraine.
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