[snip]British soldiers will be deployed to Ukraine as part of the Coalition of the Willing group led by the UK and France, defence minister John Healey said on Friday morning hours ahead of the planned Alaska Ukraine peace summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin which is slated to take place overnight UK time.
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He dismissed questions of British soldiers being fired upon by Russian forces should the ceasefire later falter as hypothetical, but nevertheless noted: “any British forces have the right to defend themselves if attacked”.
Justifying the plan to send British troops to Ukraine, Healey said supporting Ukrainian troops, helping them to regroup and rearm, would be “strongest deterrence against Russia reinvading”.
On how he expected things to progress, Healey said on Friday that he hoped the Trump-Putin summit today would be a “first step towards serious negotiations” and “the end to war must come through talking, must come from diplomacy.”
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The United Kingdom and France established a joint military headquarters in France for the Coalition of the Willing last month. The British government said of the arrangement at the time that it “will include a 3-star multi-national operational headquarters… to oversee all tactical and operational arrangements”. The headquarters would rotate to London after 12 months, they said.
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While the Coalition theoretically has dozens of contributing partners worldwide, many of which come from across Europe, it has struggled to get any definite promises of actual military support for the planned peacekeeping force from any nations beyond the core UK-France group. Germany and Poland have been the closest of all, but Germany in particular has proven reluctant and has questioned boots on the ground.
Wary of setting up a nuclear tripwire in eastern Europe, the United States has made clear that if it offers security guarantees to the European force — which are not yet certain — it would be a non-NATO deal. Flying to the Alaska summit on Friday, President Trump said to attendant reporters that he would “maybe” provide guarantees, The Financial Times reported, but “not in the form of NATO”.
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