{"id":2799,"date":"2025-02-16T22:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2025-02-16T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:35:55","slug":"uk-ready-to-deploy-troops-in-ukraine-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/uk-ready-to-deploy-troops-in-ukraine-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"UK \u2018ready\u2019 to deploy troops in Ukraine \u2013 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keir Starmer has emphasized \u201cdeep responsibility\u201d in potentially putting British personnel at risk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the UK is ready to play a \u201cleading role\u201d<\/em> in providing security guarantees to Kiev and deploy troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission, should a\u00a0ceasefire agreement with Russia be reached.<\/p>\n

In an article for The Telegraph on Sunday, Starmer described the Ukraine conflict as a \u201conce-in-a-generation moment\u201d<\/em> and an \u201cexistential\u201d<\/em> issue for Europe, justifying the potential deployment of British personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UK is ready to play a leading role in accelerating work on security guarantees for Ukraine\u2026 But it also means being ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our own troops on the ground if necessary,\u201d<\/em> the Prime Minister wrote<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI do not say that lightly. I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with potentially putting British servicemen and women in harm\u2019s way,\u201d<\/em> he added. \u201cBut any role in helping to guarantee Ukraine\u2019s security is helping to guarantee the security of our continent, and the security of this country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Starmer\u2019s announcement comes as European leaders prepare to convene in Paris on Monday for emergency talks, prompted by US President Donald Trump\u2019s recent push for a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and growing concerns over a potential reduction in US defense commitments in Europe.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump surprised Washington\u2019s European allies with a lengthy call to Putin to discuss possible steps toward resolving the Ukraine conflict. Since then, the US State Department has circulated a document reportedly containing six questions to assess European nations\u2019 willingness to commit to a long-term security arrangement for Kiev.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf third-country military forces were to be deployed to Ukraine as part of a peace arrangement, what would you consider to be the necessary size of such a European-led force?\u201d<\/em> was one of the questions, according to Reuters.\u00a0<\/em>Another question reportedly asked: \u201cWhat additional capabilities, equipment, and maintenance sustainment options is your Government prepared to provide to Ukraine to improve its negotiating hand and increase pressure on Russia?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky claimed in January that Kiev needs\u00a0\u201cat least\u201d<\/em>\u00a0200,000 European soldiers as peacekeepers to enforce any potential agreement with Russia. However, analysts cited recently by the New York Times consider this figure\u00a0unattainable<\/a>, noting that deploying even 40,000 troops would be challenging.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has repeatedly signaled its intent to minimize US involvement once a potential truce is reached, instead seeking to shift the financial and logistical burden of supporting Kiev onto regional allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group last week.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, emphasized last week that no peacekeeping force can legally operate without a mandate from the UN Security Council. Senior Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik previously warned that \u201cany contingent entering the territory of Ukraine without the consent and permission of Russia is a military target, with quite understandable consequences.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keir Starmer has emphasized \u201cdeep responsibility\u201d in potentially putting British personnel at risk Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the UK is ready to play a \u201cleading role\u201d in providing security guarantees to Kiev and deploy troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission, should a\u00a0ceasefire agreement with Russia be reached. In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}