2023-10-02 00:03:45
2023-10-02 08:03 Compiled by Lu Silun/Real-time report from United Daily News
Archyde.com reported that British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps revealed on the 30th of last month that he intended to send military instructors to Ukraine for training. Within hours, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak overturned Shapps’ statement on the 1st, saying that there was currently no Similar plans.
So far, the United Kingdom and its allies have tried their best to avoid formal military stationing to avoid directly confronting Russia and exacerbating the risk of military conflict.
Shapps, who took office as Defense Secretary last month, recently revealed in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Telegraph that in addition to assisting in training the Ukrainian armed forces in the UK or other Western countries, he also intends to deploy military instructors in Ukraine.
In this regard, Sunak told reporters before the start of the Conservative Party’s annual conference, “What the Defense Secretary means is that he will not rule out assisting military training in Ukraine one day in the future. However, that will be a long time later, and it will not be At this moment the British Government has no intention of sending any soldiers to fight.”
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on the 1st that all British soldiers in Ukraine training the Ukrainian army will become legitimate targets of attack by the Russian army.
British Prime Minister Sunak overturned Defense Secretary Shapps’ speech on the 1st, saying that there are currently no deployment of military instructors to Ukraine to assist in training…
Over the past year, the UK-led Ukrainian military joint training program has trained approximately 20,000 soldiers, with the military training lasting five weeks.
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