Training of Ukrainian soldiers will continue on British soil, Rishi Sunak says
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak © Justin Tallis – WPA Pool / Getty Images
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the UK has no plans to send military instructors to Ukraine to train local troops, claiming there was “some misreporting” of comments by Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, who floated the idea.
During a visit to Burnley on Sunday, Sunak said he wanted to make the situation “absolutely clear,” explaining that Shapps did not mean British soldiers would be deployed in Ukraine during the conflict with Russia.
The UK has been training Ukrainian soldiers on British soil for “for a long time,” he noted.
According to the PM, the defense secretary actually meant that “it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine.”
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“But that’s something for the long term, not the here and now, there are no British soldiers that will be sent to fight in the current conflict. That’s not what’s happening,” he insisted.
London continues to provide military training to the Ukrainians, but it’s “doing that here in the UK,” Sunak assured.
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