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For: EFE Updated 16 Apr 2022, 18: 16 pm EDT
Members of the UK special forces train local troops in kyiv, for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, on February 24 The Times reported this Saturday.
Officers from two battalions stationed in and around the Ukrainian capital assured the newspaper that they had received military training from British soldiers in the last two weeks.
Among them, the captain Yuriy Myronenko, whose battalion is in Obolon, north of kyiv, explained that the military special forces they had instructed the new recruits to use the NLAW, the anti-tank missiles supplied by the United Kingdom.
The Ministry of Defense in London has not confirmed this information, citing his protocol of not commenting on special operations.
The Times newspaper notes that it is about him the first time that the presence of active British soldiers on Ukrainian soil is confirmed since the war began, because until now the trainers had been ex-military or volunteers.
The UK preparers were already in Ukraine after the invasion of Crimea, but were withdrawn last February to avoid direct conflict with Russian forces and the possibility of NATO becoming involved in the current conflict.
The news comes at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and the United Kingdom, which has assumed a leading role in Europe through time to arm kyiv and sanction Moscow.
Russia banned this 16 April, the entry into the country of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and twelve other high-ranking officials for “unprecedented hostile actions” taken against Moscow by his government.
“This step has been taken in response to the unrestrained political-information campaign unleashed by London, which aims at Russia’s international isolation, to the creation of conditions to contain our country and strangle the national economy,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in announcing the measure. EFE
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