The UK has said they are prepared to send fighter jets to patrol over Ukraine if a peacekeeping deal is made.
This comes as Russia said they will not allow any NATO troops to patrol inside Ukraine “under any flag,” so Britain has rolled over and are now looking at jets.
A Whitehall source said that “air policing” will only work if there is a large deployment including air defence systems to protect warplanes.
A senior army office has said the British troops are “ready” to head to Ukraine as peacekeepers and he is confident we are ready “if and when required.”
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Brig Andy Watson, commander of NATO’s new Allied Reaction Force (ARF) land brigade, told the Express some 20 miles from the Ukrainian border in Smardan, eastern Romania, “Our job here is to provide options to ministers.
“I can’t comment on what the force package would look like inside Ukraine, if there is to be one, but in terms of this brigade’s readiness to conduct the whole range of military operations, absolutely.
“We’ve trained very well, we’re well-resourced and clearly, in this construct, we’re part of a well-resourced coalition.”
Following the meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the talks were useful and both showed “commitment to find solutions” to end the war in Ukraine.
Lavrov said the US and Russia agreed to agree to find a settlement in the war he added, “we also agreed to create conditions to restore our cooperation in full”.
Lavrov said that NATO troops being deployed to Ukraine even under different flags “is unacceptable for Russia.”
Russian officials told the US delegation in Saudi the expansion of NATO is a “direct threat to Russia.”
“We’ve told the US that deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine, even under other flags, is unacceptable for Russia,” he added.
This comes as the British Prime Minister has stated he is ready to send UK troops to Ukraine to help their planning in guaranteeing security of Europe.
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