Tom Gillespie – Sky News Jan 29, 2022
The UK is preparing to send a “clear message to the Kremlin” by increasing its number of troops deployed across Europe – as NATO hopes to prevent Russia from “choosing a path of bloodshed and destruction” by invading Ukraine.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered the armed forces to prepare for the major military deployment, which could see double the number of troops deployed, to strengthen Europe’s borders and ensure the UK is “able to support our NATO allies on land, at sea and in the air”.
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Mr Johnson said the move will show Moscow the UK will not “tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will stand with our NATO allies in the face of Russian hostility”.
UK officials will be deployed to Brussels to finalise the details of the agreement with NATO next week.
The move comes as the Foreign Office is expected to announce tougher sanctions on Monday, which will allow the UK to target Russia‘s strategic and financial interests.
Speaking of of the UK’s plan to contribute more troops to NATO, Mr Johnson said: “This package would send a clear message to the Kremlin – we will not tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will always stand with our NATO allies in the face Russian hostility.
“If President Putin chooses a path of bloodshed and destruction, it will be a tragedy for Europe. Ukraine must be free to choose its own future.
“I have ordered our armed forces to prepare to deploy across Europe next week, ensuring we are able to support our NATO allies on land, at sea and in the air.”
Moscow has denied it is planning to invade Ukraine, while at the same time amassing some 120,000 troops near the border of its Eastern European neighbour.
Russia has also expanded its military build-up to include supplies of blood that would allow it to treat casualties – another key indicator that Moscow is preparing an invasion, sources told Reuters news agency.
The UK already has more than 100 troops providing training in Ukraine, 900 military personnel based in Estonia, and a Light Cavalry Squadron of around 150 people is deployed to Poland.
Britain, the United States and other NATO allies appear increasingly concerned that hostilities are more likely than a negotiated solution to the crisis.
Mr Johnson will further step up his presence in the Russia-Ukraine crisis by holding a call with Mr Putin and visiting the region “in the coming days”.
The prime minister will “ramp up deterrence to avoid bloodshed” between the two former Soviet states and is determined to “accelerate diplomatic efforts” during the trip, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.
“He will reiterate the need for Russia to step back and engage diplomatically when he speaks to President Putin this week,” she added.
William Taylor, former US ambassador to Ukraine, told Sky News he expects the UK prime minister will warn Mr Putin of the potential consequences of an invasion when they speak over the phone.
Mr Taylor said: “Undoubtedly the prime minister will make it clear to President Putin, that if he makes this terrible decision to invade Ukraine… that there will be tens of thousands of Ukrainian, military and civilians, who will die.
“There will be thousands of Russian soldiers who will die. Those kinds of actions are war crimes – and I imagine that the prime minister will point out that there is no good to come from that kind of an action.”
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace are also set to go to Moscow for talks with their counterparts in the coming days.
They will be asked to improve relationships with President Putin’s government and encourage de-escalation.
In an article for The Sunday Telegraph, Ms Truss wrote: “Moscow’s campaign against Ukraine and fellow democracies is undermining the very foundation of European security. And so, it is vital we face down the clear and present threat posed by Russia.”
She added: “The prime minister will spearhead diplomatic efforts by talking to President Putin and travelling to the region in the coming days. Tomorrow, the UK will join talks at the UN Security Council to apply pressure on Russia to pursue the path of diplomacy. I will be flying out to Moscow within the next fortnight.
“The stakes are high. Over a hundred thousand troops are now massed on Ukraine’s border. Russia has attacked Ukraine before, illegally annexing Crimea in 2014 and bringing war to the Donbas region, so the danger is real.”
Meanwhile, Mr Johnson will meet with NATO member counterparts early next month.
Tobias Ellwood, chair of the Commons defence select committee, told Sky News the Russia-Ukraine tensions are “our Cuban missile crisis moment, and we must not blink”.
He said: “From a Russian perspective, there’s never been a better time to invade Ukraine – something Putin has been wanting to do for a long time.
“He’s enjoying this international attention. Every time a leader puts their hand up and says ‘I’m going to go to Moscow’, of course he’s going to say yes.
“He’s spinning this out. I doubt whether an invasion will take place before the Beijing Olympics, China would have made sure of that.”
Labour has accused Mr Johnson of “playing catch up with other world leaders” on deterring Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Shadow defence secretary John Healey said the government is “paralysed by a mess of its own making” domestically as the PM awaits the highly anticipated partygate report from senior civil servant Sue Gray.
Pictured: members of the Kyiv Territorial Defense Unit train in an industrial area of Kyiv. Click to enlarge
Meanwhile, Ukrainian reservists, some clutching mock wooden rifles, have taken part in military exercises on the outskirts of the country’s capital Kyiv.
Ukraine has launched a new territorial defence force this year, which it wants to build up into a corps of up to 130,000 people.
Among the reservists are a lawyer, an IT programmer, and a freelancer in online advertising.
While they may stand little chance against the much bigger and better-equipped professional Russian army, reservists like them could be tasked with protecting civilian sites in Kyiv amid any conflict.
It come as Russia has said it will not conduct naval exercises in international waters in the Irish Sea next week following a request from the Irish government to relocate the manoeuvres.
Ireland was notified last week that the exercises would take place around 240km (149 miles) off the south west coast within its exclusive economic zone but not its territorial waters, meaning it was permitted under international law.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the plans were not welcome, particularly at a time when there are tensions between Western allies and Russia over the situation in Ukraine.
> we will not tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will always stand with our NATO allies in the face Russian hostility
How I despise this turd. If I could get within a mile of him I’d try to take him out myself.
> The UK already has more than 100 troops providing training in Ukraine,
Putin must be wetting his pants. Why does turdface always try to make out that other soldiers need ‘training’ from the uk rapists and murderers?
> Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace are also set to go to Moscow for talks with their counterparts in the coming days.
As usual, endless other cunts, all with their own ‘title’, telling the world how to think and what to do. WTF do these turds know about anything outside of their own offices?
When will the masses finally wake up and put an end to these scumbags?
Really tried to read this but could not. ENOUGH WITH THE CONSTANT WAR MONGERING!!! Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia, nobody should buy this crap just cause it’s what they are selling!!! I realize it’s BIG business, sells alot of expensive military CRAP, (body bags, missiles, subs, aircraft, the latest death machine)…ENOUGH!!! Even the Ukraine Prez has had it:
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/01/28/zelensky-says-ukraine-lost-almost-500-million-to-biden-war-hype-we-dont-need-this-panic/
If it ain’t the phoney sick, it’s beat the phoney war drums, and it’s the main reason for the BS debt!!!
Beat those swords into ploughshares, ENOUGH with the fearmongering, especially the military death marching!!!
Colonial master are at it again. A great reset is coming for the ELITES.
Premeditated Murder and GENOCIDE. All of you will not get away with it.
This is a spiritual world. It will not make sense to most. Watch on.
Mystic and Yogi
Spiritual Warfare
Mass Psychology
Somnambulism
Social Engineering
Mass Psychosis
Psychological Warfare.
Mind Control
Mass Hypnosis
Mind Control
Behavior Modification:wearing the mask:fools
This is WAR.
Like the Nazis, our Jews want to eventually obliterate Russia because it is a White and Christian country, and, from their point of view, it is good when White Christian Americans get killed in the process. Then we can enjoy listening to Sarah Silverman and Whoopee Goldberg, the great philosophers, forever.
I’ve not read this Sky News sourced propaganda, because Sky is official No10 bullshit pipe.
The UK doesn’t have the military number to do what is implied in the headline. The UK can probably deploy around 10/15k, which it a sacrificial offering… conscription anyone? lol RAOMBLMFAO.
I believe there is one or several major issues that is brewing globally and this Ukraine situation is just a red herring to divert our attention from real issues that matters or are are still brewing.
It is clear to me that Russia has considered they have successfully sent a message to the West/NATO/Umrica/Canada/UK that Russia can mobilize troops (all branches, ie air, sea, land, cyber security, logistics, etc) in a a coherent manner and in according to their military mobilization plans. Done and completed and now they are saying if there is a kinetic war, they are ready. The Ukraine government has said the Russian maneuver is something they are used to.
Knowing how Umrica’s operates (read willingness to employ false flag operation), and knowing that Russia is not interested for a kinetic war but is ready to participate if forced to, I offer that Umrica is hiding something big and created Ukraine as red a herring to divert our attention.
That is Umrica, a nation with no moral and no self respect.
Don’t worry about it…all the ‘heads of State’ of these supposed ‘clashing’ nations all wear yarmulkes & meet with Chabad Lubavitch..Its all a staged Zionist-Communist production for your delusion..
It is a wonder he can take time from his partying to do anything else.
As usual we have a complete inversion of the truth and total lack of honesty. These people are going to get British Forces and British citizens killed with their hubris and lies.
Yes we have a “Cuban Missile Crisis” moment but it is Russia being threatened by NATO and the WESTERN Power’s including and especially the UK.
Boris Johnson is not fit to run this country, he is a dangerous buffoon and a liar. Look at his statements about Covid: we will go by the data not the date, then a week later say’s; restrictions will be lifted on the 19th Sept.
Ukraine is not a NATO state and NEVER should be judging by the fact that they are dominated by a Neo-Nazi anti Russian ideology and want to purge all Russian language and culture from Ukraine. It makes me wonder why Boris Johnson and his Government want to support such a regime.
We have been training Ukrainians and supplying massive amounts of arms lately to the army threatening the people in the breakaway states in The Donbas, mainly ethnic Russians persecuted by Kiev.
The Government in Kiev; installed by the west after they arranged the “maiden” coup, deliberately blocked the fresh water canal to The Crimea A crime against humanity, and cut off their electric. Their supporters allied to the Nazi insignia Azov Brigade, chased the opposition into their union building, fired on them, and set fire to building in Odessa, burning them alive. Nice people we are giving aid to!
By sending our forces into Europe especially into Ukraine, we are putting them in harms way, unnecessarily, there is no threat to us, but we are now a threat, so now the UK as a whole could become a target if this gets out of hand and goes NUCLEAR!
lewis jones – when the nazis went to war against it the country wasn’t called Russia it was the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and that country had killed tens of millions of its own Christian citizens.
http://www.wearswar.com/2021/07/17/stalins-war-of-aggression/
As usual, the Tories will do whatever their American paymasters demand. Britain used as a US patsy yet again. Only this time the stake is total annihilation.
To Les–all this Quick Change Artistry , but a Russian is a Russian and Nazis went through them like butter. Jews are happy whenever Whites are killed.
ZOGUK:
The Pipsqueak That Roared
Boris Johnson – Arch Bulshitter Culler
“Insight into the Johnson mindset and handling of Covid. British media’s favourite daddy Stanley explains his population control theory to reduce UK inhabitants to ‘10 or 15 million’. You can bet that includes every one of the Johnsons.”
https://twitter.com/phantompower14/status/1352896297116774400
Anyone who still thinks that the bioweapon viruses and vaccines have nothing to do with culling off the weak and the unwanted are either despicable liars or and despicably and deliberately keeping their heads in the sand.
E.G.: A physician takes her husband to the ER in Nanaimo British Columbia and mentions to the treating physician the benefits of Ivermectin and asks him to check out on the net Dr. Robert Malone (chief architect of mRNA platform technology who has blown the whistle on the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines) and the physician dismissively says he does not want to hear any of it.
Still, trying to make up my mind ??
Is Boris another Capt. George Mainwaring or is he another LCpl. Jack Jones ??
Can’t make up my mind …
INSTEAD the stupid soldiers fight
their enemy (jews + freemasons) on
the homefront . therefore i am for
wariors not for soldiers . WARIORS
DO WHAT THEY WANT soldiers
do on orders what their judaized
freemason generals + officers demand .
Johnstein, the deranged Turkish Jew Brit, vomited “the UK will not ‘tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will stand with our NATO allies in the face of Russian hostility.'” A lying Jew c*nt criticizing someone for “destabilising activity”, hypocrisy at its worst. He then upped the bullshit factor by pointing out Russia’s “hostility” for wanting to protect her own borders and people while the Legion of Doom that is the Jewnited States, Jew-K, and their Jewropean lackeys keep pouring in weapons and troops to an absurdly corrupt Ukrainian shit-hole on Russia’s doorstep.
And then there’s the Wooden Gun Squad that is the Kyiv Territorial Defense Unit shown in the lower photo. They will surely make Spetsnaz soldiers piss themselves…with laughter. You have the guy in the middle of the front row looking like he is either puking or looking for a contact lens, or perhaps a wooden cartridge fell out of his wooden gun. Then the back row furthest away obviously either has no idea what the f*ck is going on or realizes the sheer stupidity of it and has given up. Then there’s the stick-skinny Jew crack whore in the middle of the back row looking like they’re shitting their pants, which they will be if Russia decides to pay a visit.
Les: before the USSR, rural Russians were eating each other, that is how bad things were. Look at the extreme climate, it is a very hard country to live in. While I don’t condone all the deaths and murders during the USSR period, I believe the conditions had a lot of influence on how the country was run.
During the great depression, 6 million black Amerikans disappeared. US population was around 130 million at the time. Did they starve? Were they murdered?
@ Mr Reynard
It’s this attitude that he, and all the rest, are some kind of fool that is the problem. No one takes them seriously. You can bet the 100,000 in the care homes took them seriously at the last, just as the needle went in. Doris and all the rest need to be killed. Plain and simple. Or do you need the bombs from russia or china or just about anywhere wlse to be falling around your feet before you take them seriously? I bet the men in britain in 1938 were just the same. Kindly old churchill, until they were knee deep in mud, surrounded by the body parts of complete strangers. Kill or be killed, that’s your choice.