The Russian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday that they had placed 13 British ministers, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss, on a “stop list” that bars them from entering Russia. Moscow did this in response to “unprecedented hostile actions” and an “unbridled” political and media campaign against Russia, emanating from the British. Russia had earlier accused London of “pumping” Kyiv full of weapons in coordination with other NATO countries, but singled out the U.K. for “instigating” its Western allies on anti-Russian sanctions.
London is crowing about its role. Today’s Sunday Times reports: “A Ukrainian captain said that British special forces had come to instruct a battalion in Obolon, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on the use of British-supplied anti-tank-missiles.… Captain Yuriy Myronenko, whose battalion is stationed in Obolon on the northern outskirts of Kyiv, said that military trainers had come to instruct new and returning military recruits to use NLAWs, British-supplied anti-tank missiles that were delivered in February as the invasion was beginning.” The Times reports that British SAS were training Ukrainians to use British-supplied shoulder-fired anti-tank missile launchers. “We have received huge military help from Britain,” Myronenko told the Times.
According to RT, the British had actually been in Ukraine as early as 2014 to train Ukrainian forces, and left in February 2022 in anticipation of a Russian incursion and to a possible conflict with Russians, and have now returned, to train Ukrainians in the weapons Britain is supplying.
