On Sunday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed recent comments by Defence Minister Grant Shapps, asserting that there are no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine. Shapps had expressed a desire to train Ukrainian troops in the country, prompting concerns about heightened tensions with Russia.
Sunak, speaking at the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester, clarified, “What the defence secretary was saying was that it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine, 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.”
