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British General Admits UK Deployed Troops to Ukraine

by mosesman
FILE PHOTO: A Royal Marine with 45 Commando pictured during jungle training in Ghana, October 5, 2013
  • British General Admits UK Deployed Troops to Ukraine
    by https://www.rt.com/
    Russia has long claimed that NATO personnel are taking part in the conflict
    British Royal Marines conducted high-risk operations in Ukraine in April, Lieutenant General Robert Magowan has admitted, according to a report in The Times on Tuesday.
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    Russia has consistently warned that NATO troops have been active in the conflict, but these statements have been dismissed by Western analysts and media. Members of 45 Commando Group of the Royal Marines left Ukraine in January after evacuating the British embassy in Kiev to Poland. However, some 300 members of the elite unit were sent back into the country in April to reestablish the British mission in Kiev, before going on to conduct “other discreet operations,” Magowan wrote in the force’s official journal, The Globe and Laurel, the newspaper said.
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    These operations took place “in a hugely sensitive environment and with a high level of political and military risk,” Magowan, who formerly served as commandant general of the Royal Marines and is now deputy chief of Defense Staff at the Ministry of Defense, stated.
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