British Troops Will Leave Ukraine

LONDON – Troops English sent to help train soldiers Ukraine will leave the country this weekend. This was stated by the British Minister of the Armed Forces, James Heappey, while warning that: Russia able to launch attacks “without notice”.

Heappey said the small number of British personnel sent to train Ukrainian forces on anti-tank missiles would be withdrawn, in addition to about 100 helping with broader troop training as part of Operation Orbital.

Britain, like all other NATO allies, has said it will not go to war against a Russian attack, a point Heappey repeated in an interview with the BBC. Ukraine is not a member of NATO, despite being given a promise in 2008 that it could one day join.

“There would be no British troops in Ukraine if there was a conflict there,” Heappey said.

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“They will be gone over the weekend,” he added The GuardianSunday (13/2/2022).

The military evacuation followed a series of warnings, led by the US but backed by Britain, that Russia had mustered up a force capable of striking Ukraine. Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said late Friday: “We are in the window when an invasion could begin at any moment.”

Western intelligence fears the most likely scenario, in the event of a conflict, is that Russian forces will launch a blitzkrieg aimed at encircling Kiev, a city of more than 3 million people, and trying to force regime change. As a first step, Moscow’s forces will aim to rapidly scale down the Ukrainian military in a blitzkrieg.

Russia is now in a position to strike “very, very quickly”, Heappey said, although he hopes no invasion takes place.

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