Britain is to escalate its armament of Ukraine’s army forces, together with fascist battalions, Downing Road has pledged. The UK is seeking to provide the Kiev authorities with Starstreak excessive velocity surface-to-air missiles, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesman stated, threatening, “Britain won’t be deterred by Russia from supplying weapons to Ukraine.”
The assertion was made after experiences that three British ex-special forces personnel had been killed in a Russian assault on a army facility near the Polish border on Sunday. Their deaths haven’t been formally confirmed and the British authorities denies its army personnel are on the bottom in Ukraine.
It is a lie. Hundreds of international mercenaries, many from army and fascist backgrounds are lively in Ukraine and UK International Secretary Liz Truss stated in February that she “completely” backed Britons going to Ukraine to battle Russia. The federal government subsequently stated that it will be unlawful for Britons to depart so as to battle in Ukraine, however this was for the report. Nothing has been performed to cease anybody from touring there.
The legal character of the Russian invasion can’t detract from the truth that NATO has been concerned in never-ending provocations towards Moscow for the reason that dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Having backed the right-wing Maidan coup in 2014, it has stepped up the arming and coaching of Ukrainian forces as a part of efforts for regime-change in Moscow, and the carving up of Russia, in a lot the identical manner that NATO dismembered Yugoslavia.
However official denials, proof proves that NATO is already covertly at battle towards Russia in Ukraine.
A report from the Home of Commons library “Navy Help to Ukraine 2014-2021”, was launched on March 4. It states, “UK army help to Ukraine is longstanding”. Formally this commenced with “bilateral army help” in October 2014, shortly after the Maidan putsch however unofficial army ties return to 1991.
That yr Ukraine joined NATO’s North Atlantic Cooperation Council as a companion nation and the Partnership for Peace programme in 1994.
In early 2015, the UK’s Operation Orbital was introduced, involving “non-lethal” army gear and ‘steerage and coaching to the Ukrainian armed forces via a number of advisory and short-term coaching groups.” Within the two years between 2015 and 2017, the UK “gifted” £2.2 million of non-lethal army gear to Ukraine. This has been expanded ever since. In November 2019, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed that Operation Orbital can be prolonged till March 2023. The operation consists of “Coaching for defensive operations in an city setting.”
Ukraine was given Enhanced Alternative standing with NATO in June 2020, which “supplies Ukraine with preferential entry to NATO’s workout routines, coaching and change of data and situational consciousness, so as to enhance interoperability. In September 2020, Ukraine hosted Train Joint Endeavour, with British, US and Canadian troops, the primary train beneath Ukraine’s new enhanced standing.”
In October that yr, a Memorandum of Intent between the UK and Ukraine agreed to develop Kiev’s naval capabilities. Contracts underway contain “the sale and integration of missiles” on Ukraine’s Navy patrols, the “growth and joint manufacturing of eight quick missile warships” and “Help in constructing new naval bases within the Black Sea and Azov Sea.”
The briefing states that the UK has skilled 22,000 Ukrainian army personnel as a part of these initiatives.
Britain has adopted the US lead. Ukraine has been a “main recipient of US international and army support for the reason that early Nineties. Within the first decade after independence, Ukraine acquired virtually $2.6 billion in US support. Within the years main as much as Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine was receiving an estimated $105 million every year, together with international army financing,” the Commons report states.
“In 2014 the Obama administration offered vital non-lethal army gear to Ukraine… On the time, the Obama administration, with the help of Congress, indicated that it was contemplating offering Ukraine with deadly weapons if ‘diplomacy fails to finish the disaster within the east’”.
It was the Trump administration that formally determined to offer Ukraine with “main defensive deadly weaponry”.
“It was the withholding of Ukrainian safety help and particularly the supply of deadly weaponry that was linked to the primary impeachment trial of President Trump in 2019,” the report states. The “pause” was lifted in September 2019, after which, in August 2021, “the US and Ukraine additionally signed a Strategic Protection Framework to offer a basis for strengthening defence cooperation. Amongst its priorities are defence trade reform, strengthening cooperation with respect to safety within the Black Sea, cyber defence and intelligence sharing, and countering Russian aggression.”
A sign of who’s receiving this funding is given by the Declassified web site which revealed pictures of a gathering in Kiev final yr, believed to be in September 2021, between three British commanders of Operation Orbital and three officers from Ukraine’s Nationwide Guard (NGU).
“The NGU was shaped in 2014 to include an array of paramilitary and volunteer battalions which had been combating pro-Russian separatists in jap Ukraine,” Declassified writes. “This included a neo-Nazi unit, the Azov Battalion, which reportedly has a thousand troopers.’
The MoD “believed… the assembly to be non-public and shouldn’t have been publicised.” “There is no such thing as a point out of the assembly in any UK data which are publicly obtainable” however the photograph was initially posted by the NGU on social media who reported that Lt Col Andy Cox, deputy commander of Orbital, was in attendance.
The NGU report quoted Cox as promising “the British army is able to contain representatives of the Nationwide Guard of Ukraine within the coaching actions being performed right now for models of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to develop their fight capabilities.”
An MoD spokesperson denied the claims to Declassified, stating that the “assembly was a routine engagement… to enhance mutual understanding.”
Declassified experiences that 4 months earlier than the assembly, the identical “NGU web site posted a press release to mark the Azov Regiment’s seven-year anniversary. Titled ‘Seven years of victory’, it gushed with extravagant reward for the neo-Nazi unit.”
Citing a 2021 report from the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Research at George Washington College, Declassified discloses {that a} member of one other fascist militia, Centuria, a number of of whose members presently serve in Ukraine’s army, “acquired 11 months of officer coaching at Britain’s elite army coaching facility Sandhurst, graduating in 2020.”
Whereas the MoD formally denies involvement, Britain’s media is brazenly crowing about UK’s function within the NATO battle towards Russia.
Final week, the Every day Telegraph boasted “The within story of how Britain armed Ukraine’s resistance to Russia.”
“The true story of how the world armed Ukraine is each fascinating and provoking”, it writes. MI6, particular forces, US intelligence and cyber warfare operatives “have all performed their half”.
Ukrainian Colonel Yevgen Bondar instructed the Telegraph, “We’re getting numerous severe assist. The NLAWs [Next-generation Light Anti-tank Weapons] took out three tanks and one armoured combating car. Burnt them out. Burnt superbly.”
Describing the NLAWs, an Anglo-Swedish munition, as “an ideal leveller within the battle between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces”, the Colonel stated, “The NLAW is an excellent factor. A Javelin [the American-made portable anti-tank missile] has higher vary—however within the metropolis, [NLAW] is best”.
“Every NLAW prices £30,000 and is single-use”, the newspaper experiences. Britain has despatched 3,615 NLAWs to Ukraine, together with 2,000 provided earlier than the Russian invasion. “And that’s only a small a part of the entire. Up to now, greater than 17,000 missiles, together with Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, have been despatched to Ukraine by the democratic West within the greatest emergency provide mission for the reason that Berlin Airlift of 1948-49. And with each hour that passes, hundreds extra weapons, bullets, helmets, ballistic vests, excessive vitality rations and night-sights pour in.”
The newspaper cites the main function of the Obama administration in offering army support and funding to Ukraine that started the organising and coaching of a “130,000-strong military of reservists. Some are already battle-hardened after combating within the disputed Donbas area.”
US Cyber Command has cyber-mission groups round Jap Europe, the Telegraph states, to “disrupt” Russian communications and digital assaults, whereas US intelligence sharing troop actions with Ukraine.
The US and UK are among14 international locations to have provided Ukraine with arms. “Impartial” Sweden and Finland despatched hundreds of anti-tank weapons, whereas Germany has provided Ukraine with 1,400 anti-tank rockets and 500 Stingers. The Netherlands is sending 40 Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons, 400 missiles and 200 Stingers. Different international locations are supplying hundreds of pistols, assault rifles, machine weapons, ammunition and sniper rifles.
The newspaper experiences that “army specialists have speculated that British particular forces are on the bottom in Ukraine, carrying Ukrainian military uniforms, performing as observers.”
