The United Kingdom has begun training for its special purpose forces for a possible business trip to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission. The special forces is in standby mode, and military planners are instructed to start mobilizing resources for potential deployment.
According to The Independent with reference to military sources, last week the UK's military planning center received a directive for the training of personnel and military equipment. Currently, it is about ensuring combat readiness, not immediate departure of the military.
This decision is related to the plans of London on the formation of a "coalition of those" - a group of countries that are ready to support the peacekeeping initiative to terminate the fighting in Ukraine. The UK Prime Minister, Kir Starmer, recently stated that the placement of peacekeeping forces had gone into the "operational phase".
Military experts say that the UK special forces, although not a typical peacekeeping force, has the key skills necessary for such a mission. "His ability to deploy, experience in intelligence and counterintelligence make it an ideal tool for coalition heading," writes the British edition "and".
Dr. Simon Angelim, a researcher at the Faculty of Military Studies of the Royal College, notes: "British special forces are one of the world-class military remedies that can be used in peacekeeping forces to collect intelligence, protection of VIP-persons, some training and possibly combating hybrid activities."
More than 30 countries can be included in the coalition, and a meeting of its representatives is planned on Thursday to discuss further steps.
