iNews reports:
British soldiers are in Ukraine – this is why you don’t hear about it
For only the second time since Russia's invasion, the Ministry of Defence has announced a death on Ukrainian soil
The death of Major Paul Wilks in Ukraine is a tragedy for his family but the question is: what was he doing there?
The UK is not at war with Russia, or at least it claims it isn't, and yet serving British forces are located in Ukraine.
And as iNews points out, Major Wilks is not the first one to die needlessly in Ukraine due to an 'accident'.
Back in 2024 The Conversation reported:
Leaked communications involving high-level German government and military figures appear to confirm that British army personnel are engaged on the ground in Ukraine. An unencrypted telephone call intercepted and leaked to Russian broadcaster RT suggested British troops were helping the defending forces in the use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles the UK has supplied to help Kyiv’s war effort.
In response, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, confirmed that there are a “small number” of British army personnel “supporting the armed forces of Ukraine”. But he added that “we haven’t got any plans for large-scale deployment”.
Supporting the armed forces of Ukraine means serving British servicemen are fighting Russia so it's no wonder that The Conversation points out:
The episode raises some important questions as to whether training Ukrainian troops on the battlefield comprises an act of war – and whether this means Britain risks being designated a co-combatant alongside Ukraine.
Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s federation council, was reported by Russia’s state-run news agency Tass as saying that by supplying weapons to Ukraine, Nato countries were progressing along a path towards direct confrontation. Sending troops to Ukraine, he said, “can be interpreted as the alliance’s direct involvement in hostilities, or even as a declaration of war”.
Serving UK forces are already threatening Russians directly so essentially it makes this narrative about the Russian 'threat' to the UK complete nonsense.
Russian soldiers are not training anyone to fight the UK or supplying weapons to kill UK military and civilians so what exactly is the true 'threat level' between the UK and Russia?
The Standard reported that at least 40 Brits had been killed fighting for Ukraine as mercenaries:
London exhibition pays tribute to 40 British soldiers killed in Ukraine war
It's going to be interesting if the current spat over the Falklands escalates into another war and if we will see Russian mercenaries fighting for Argentina and Ukrainian mercenaries fighting for the UK to emulate the Brit mercenaries involved in Ukraine.
If so, the second Falklands war could turn out to be even more bloody affair than the first.