Maria Sierra London

London

Updated Sunday, March 10, 2024-15:08

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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.