Starmer: The UK is ready to send troops to Ukraine

Great Britain, if necessary, is ready to send its troops to Ukraine to ensure the country's security guarantees, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, said in an article for the Telegraph newspaper.

"The UK is ready to play a leading role in accelerating work on security guarantees for Ukraine. This includes further support for the Ukrainian armed forces, for which the UK has already allocated three billion pounds a year at least until 2030. But it also means a willingness and desire to contribute to ensuring Ukraine's security guarantees by introducing our troops into the country's territory if necessary," he wrote.

The prime minister noted that he feels "very deeply" the responsibility associated with the potential to endanger the British military, but assistance to Kiev, according to him, will ensure the security of the continent and Britain itself.

Starmer called on Europe to take a step towards meeting the requirements of European security by increasing spending on it and taking on a greater role in NATO.

"We have been talking about this for too long — and President (US Donald) Trump is right to demand that we do this," the prime minister said.

Earlier, the Associated Press reported that a number of European countries are secretly working on a plan to send troops to In order to "help ensure the implementation" of a future peace agreement with Russia, the Europeans began exploring options about a year ago due to their concerns about the position of US President Donald Trump on the settlement of the conflict.

As noted, the United Kingdom and France are at the forefront of these efforts. According to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, the European Union "sooner or later" will have to send troops to Ukraine.

The press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service earlier reported that the West would deploy a so-called peacekeeping contingent of about 100,000 people in the country to restore Ukraine's combat capability. The SVR believes that this will become the actual occupation of Ukraine. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the deployment of peacekeepers is possible only with the consent of the parties to a conflict. According to him, to talk about peacekeepers on the It is premature for Ukraine.