Maria Sierra London
London
Updated Sunday, March 10, 2024-15:08
EL MUNDO direct witness in a British training camp for Ukrainian soldiers: "My goal is for Russia to leave my country"
David Cameron, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, opposes the deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine, even under limited mandates for military training, medical training or deactivation of minefields in the country threatened by Russia.
The position of the new head of British diplomacy, which he explains in an interview with the German newspaper
Süddeutsche Zeitung
,
distances
himself from that set by French President
Emmanuel Macron
, who does not rule out the possibility of sending operatives from allied countries to Ukraine.
Cameron calculates that NATO reinforcements would fall on the objective of Russian forces and considers the training of Ukrainian soldiers
on the national territory of the allies
more efficient .
The United Kingdom is at the forefront of military training programs for volunteers sent from Ukraine to practice and shooting ranges in England, Wales and Scotland.
More than
30,000 Ukrainian women and men
have learned
combat, defense and emergency assistance techniques
in courses lasting about three weeks that have been taught in the United Kingdom since June 2022, four months after the start of the war.
Until then, the British Army maintained a regular military training program in Ukraine that accelerated with Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014.