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Ukrainian commanders told ''[[The Times of London]]'' that soldiers from Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) trained Ukrainian troops in Kyiv.<ref>https://archive.ph/5CG2z</ref>
Ukrainian commanders told ''[[The Times of London]]'' that soldiers from Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) trained Ukrainian troops in Kyiv.<ref>https://archive.ph/5CG2z</ref>
While Ukraine was losing 20,000 soldiers a month, [[Boris Johnson]] travelled to Kyiv to promise training for 10,000 soldiers every four months.<ref>https://youtu.be/Lj-Vj_YWYfE</ref>
On June 19, 2022 Commander of UK Strategic Command Gen. Thomas Patrick wrote to the UK Royal Army troops, "There is now an urgent need to forge an army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle. We are the generation that must prepare the Army to fight in Europe once again. There is now a burning imperative to forge an Army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle."<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/british-troops-must-prepare-to-fight-in-europe-once-again-says-uks-new-army-chief-articleshow.html</ref>
On July 11, 2022, the BBC reported that UK Special Forces were involved in the illegally killing of 54 unarmed detainees in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62083196</ref>
=====UK military-intelligence organization=====
[[File:Hypersonic missile attack.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Aftermath of a hypersonic missile attack on NATO mercenary training and command center at [[Yavoriv]], March 12, 2022]]
Leaked documents revealed that British military-intelligence organizations were training a guerrilla army of 'stay behind' sabotage groups to attack Russian military and civilian targets in Crimea. The investigative news website ''The Grayzone'' named the key players working with the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) in [[Odessa]] to set up the covert force.<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/03/british-spies-terror-army-ukraine/</ref> They include military consultant Hugh Ward, who works for private security firm Rezolutionz, [[MI6]] veteran Guy Spindler, former Lithuanian defense minister Audrius Butkevicius and veteran intelligence agent Chris Donnelly. ''The Grayzone'' also reported that British private military contractor Prevail Partners, founded by former Royal Marines Brigadier and Special Boat Service (SBS) commander Justin Hedges and other ex-commandoes, had been hired to train the new [[guerrilla]] force.
''The Greyzone'' reported Spindler and Butkevicius lobbied governments to ramp up funding for the program. Internal emails seen by the site asked: "will [[Uncle Sam]] pay for this?" while a "costed proposal" to the British Ministry of Defense had been "turned down for risk reasons."
Alex Finnen, of the British army Specialist Group Military Intelligence section of the 77 Brigade cyber-warfare centre and the Foreign Office's Russia Unit, said in one email from March 2022 that the proposal — tendered at $600,000 per insurgent per year — was “very expensive for what it is,” although the firm was in a "seller's market". “I suspect that they have taken the first figure they thought of and then doubled it. So, there needs to be more discussion as to how and what these people are going to do,” Finnen wrote. “Partisans live in and amongst the people. That suggests that you need people from across Ukraine, in small teams to take part as Prevail suggest ‘oblast by oblast’. How are they going to achieve this?”
Justin Hedges claimed that his firm could do a much better job by training 40-strong groups in guerrilla warfare tactics. He said funding could be “provided by flowing ‘donations’ through Prevail's established [[NGO]], Rhizome Insights Ltd,” without leaving a clear trail from governments to the mercenary firm.
Russia accused the UK of complicity in the September 26, 2022 bombing of the [[Nord Stream]] pipelines across the [[Baltic Sea]], the October 8, 2022 truck bombing of the [[Kerch Strait bridge]] to Crimea and the October 29, 2022 attack on the Crimean port of [[Sevastopol]] with seven marine and nine aerial drones. Other incidents in the Crimean peninsula are suspected to be the work of covert units, including an explosion at a military airfield in August 2022 and an attack using a small drone to drop explosives.
====UK sabotages peace negotiations====
====UK sabotages peace negotiations====