Rishi Sunak Quickly Backtracks, Guarantees UK Is NOT About to Send Troops to Ukraine
The new UK Defense Minister, Grant Schapps, caused a lot of tension with his statement to British Sunday Telegraph that he wanted to deploy ‘military instructors’ to Ukraine, in addition to training Ukrainian armed forces in Britain or other Western countries.
You read it right – British troops in Ukraine.
After the enormous controversy and expected furious reaction from Moscow, the Prime Minister came to ‘clarify’ the situation.
Mere hours after Schapps interview, Sunak said there are no ‘immediate’ plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine.
Reuters reported:
“‘What the defense 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’,
