U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey, in the runup to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, declared yesterday that the Starmer government is “ready to put U.K. boots on the ground” in Ukraine if a ceasefire is secured, the Financial Times reported yesterday. He was attending an event in London to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the allied victory over Japan in the Second World War, where he said the so-called Coalition of the Willing was ready to go on “day one” of a ceasefire to help secure peace in Ukraine.
“In the circumstances of a ceasefire we’re ready to put U.K. boots on the ground in Ukraine,” Healey told the BBC. “They are ready to go, they’re ready to act from day one.”
He reportedly stressed that the main objective of the Coalition of the Willing alliance that the U.K. and France have tried to assemble was to help provide reassurance to Ukraine while helping rebuild their armed forces to provide future deterrence to Russia. “In the end the strongest deterrence against Russia reinvading or regrouping and relaunching their aggression against Ukraine is the strength of Ukraine,” Healey said.
What Healey said is why the Russians oppose any kind of European military presence in Ukraine. The Europeans intend to use a ceasefire to rearm the Kiev regime so that it may continue the war at a later date.
