United Kingdom Ready to Send ‘Its Troops and Planes’ to Ukraine to Support Peace Agreement
This was announced by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
‘I am working closely with other European leaders on this and I am clear that the United Kingdom is prepared to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support the deal, working with our allies, because that is the only way that peace will last,’ Starmer said.
He added that 18 countries are already joining the peace talks and a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
‘This year, we will be providing more military assistance to Ukraine than ever before, and just this week I told you how we are taking on more security responsibility. We are already one of the biggest spenders in NATO, and now we are going much further, providing Britain with the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War. This is not just talk, it is action. We are rebalancing the transatlantic alliance, making us all stronger and standing up for our shared values and common security,’ Starmer said.
On the eve of the talks, when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Washington to try to secure security guarantees for Europe, reporters in the Oval Office asked US President Trump if he would come to the aid of British troops stationed in Ukraine if they were attacked by Russia, a possibility Starmer had previously raised as part of a peacekeeping settlement also sought by Emmanuel Macron in France.
Trump said: ‘If they need help, I'll always be with the British, okay? But they don't need help.’
British troops in post-war Ukraine will be able to ‘take care of themselves,’ Donald Trump said.
