The UK will not send troops to Ukraine after the conflict is resolved without guarantees of US support for such a contingent.
“I have always said that US protection is necessary“, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in an interview with Bloomberg, answering a question about the possibility of deploying British troops as part of a “coalition of the willing“ in Ukraine “without US air support“. At the same time, Starmer added, “there is no reason to believe that the US and the UK cannot act together, as they have done for many years in their history.“
“I will not reveal the details of the private conversations that we are having, but there are no two countries that work as closely together in the areas of defense, security and intelligence sharing as the US and the UK. That aspect of our relationship is as strong today as it has ever been“, the British head of government stressed.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the presence of NATO troops under any flag and in any capacity on Ukrainian soil is a threat to Russia. According to him, Russia will not accept this under any circumstances.