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Cameron pledges: No UK troops in Ukraine

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Vincent
Published date05 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The Conservative peer and former Prime Minister said Ukraine's war with Russia "will be lost if the allies don't step up"

Lord Cameron said he will urge the US Congress to increase its financial support of Ukraine during a visit to the United States next week.

He told the BBC's Ukrainecast: "What Nato is looking at is a Nato mission for Ukraine, not a Nato mission in Ukraine.

"It's making sure that we use Nato's architecture to help deliver some of the support that Ukraine needs. But fundamentally, I think that we should do everything we can to help Ukraine, that's been Britain's position. And I think it's not escalatory to say we are going to help this independent sovereign country to fight off an aggressor, and we're going to give it all the help we can in order to do that."

In response to whether he could see Nato boots on the ground in Ukraine, Lord Cameron said "No", adding: "I think that we don't want to give Putin a target like that, and Nato can do lots of things to better coordinate the help we give to Ukraine.

"But fundamentally, for countries like Britain and all those supportive of Ukraine this is a question of political will. Do we have the patience? Do we have the will? Are we prepared to give the resources? Now in Britain's case, definitely the answer is yes."

He added: "If we can get that money out of the US Congress, if we can get Ukraine the arms they need, if we can show Putin that he can't outwait us and that Ukraine is going to fight back and win back more of its territory. "If we can do...

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