UK supplies Ukraine with anti-tank weapons while Canada sends special forces | War Stories

The United Kingdom has begun launching anti-tank weapons in Ukraine and Canada is said to have sent a special small force to Kyiv in response to a Russian offensive.

This happened when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov angrily refused statements and the United States last week that Moscow is preparing for an attack on Ukraine if negotiations fail to achieve its goals.

Although Moscow – which has sent 100,000 troops close to its border with Ukraine – is rejecting plans to fight Ukraine, it has said it could take anonymous action only if the West agrees to a series of demands, including barring Kyiv from joining NATO.

Russia sees NATO’s rise to the east as an existing threat.

But Washington and its allies vehemently denied Moscow’s intentions and Russia-US talks in Geneva and a NATO-Russia summit in Brussels ended last week. without a winner.

Kyiv has called on Western nations to provide weapons to help protect themselves.

Speaking at the British Parliament on Monday, Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace said the UK had “taken the idea of ​​providing Ukraine with an anti-aircraft gunship”.

The first equipment was delivered on Monday and a few British workers will train for a short period of time, he said, not to mention the number and type of equipment being shipped.

But he added, “These are not weapons and they do not pose a threat to Russia. They should be used for self-defense.

“This is short … but it makes people stop and think about what they are doing and if the tanks enter Ukraine, attack them, then they will be part of the security.”

In particular story Published Monday, Wallace also echoed Russia’s allegations of NATO threats, calling the Western security alliance “an emergency, security”.

He wrote: “The territories of the former Soviet Union were not developed by NATO, but they willingly cooperated. “The Kremlin is trying to portray NATO as a Western conspiracy to destroy their territory, but in reality, the growth of Alliance membership is a natural response of these countries to their atrocities and threats.”

In Kyiv, Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov received UK support, saying in a Twitter post that his country “strongly appreciates Britain’s idea of ​​providing new, more sophisticated, anti-weapon, and self-defense weapons!”

Ukrainian officials have warned that Russia could invade Russia from one country to another, including in Belarus. The Russian and Belarus forces are planning to hold a major military operation next month, including near the Belarus-Ukraine border.

Belarus Security Secretary Alexander Volfovich said on Monday that Russian troops had begun arriving in the country to take part in the protest, according to BELTA.

Russia has denied any plans to attack its neighbor and has instead accused the Ukrainian leadership of thwarting plans to use force to retake control of Russia’s eastern part of eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian government officials deny the allegations.

Individually in Canada, Global News also reported that Ottawa had sent special envoys to Ukraine.

Citing unspecified terms, a TV presenter said the group would recognize ways to support the Ukrainian government and help develop plans to evacuate Canadian workers in the event of a strike.

A spokesman for the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command said it would not confirm the report, but said it had assisted the Ukrainian military from time to time to provide training and “expert training and leadership” since 2020.

The report came as Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal in Kyiv on Monday during a visit aimed at discussing efforts to curb Russia’s “violence”.

Russia took control of Crimea in 2014.