Hundreds of troops from Britain’s 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped into Ukraine in Sept 2000 for drills with local forces. Will it happen again?
Greg Heffer – Daily Mail Aug 15, 2025
The Defence Secretary today said Britain was ready to put ‘UK boots on the ground’ in Ukraine should Donald Trump‘s talks with Vladimir Putin result in a ceasefire.
John Healey outlined how British troops could help ‘secure the safe skies, safe seas and build the strength of the Ukrainian forces’ in the event of a peace deal.
The US President is due to meet with the Russian leader in Alaska later on Friday in an effort to end the three-year long conflict in Ukraine.
Prior to departing Washington DC, Mr Trump looked ahead to ‘high stakes’ talks with Mr Putin and expressed confidence ‘something is going to come’ of the discussions.
Mr Healey told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the ‘coalition of the willing’ of Ukrainian allies – including Britain – was poised to help enforce a ceasefire.
But he refused to speculate on what might happen should British troops come under attack as part of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
‘As the Prime Minister has said, in the circumstances of a ceasefire, we’re ready to put UK boots on the ground in Ukraine,’ the Defence Secretary said.
‘That’s in part to reassure Ukrainians but it’s also, in part, to secure the safe skies, safe seas and to build the strength of the Ukrainian forces.’
Mr Healey added: ‘The strongest deterrent against Russia reinvading or regrouping and relaunching their aggression against Ukraine is the strength of Ukraine to stand for itself.’
Asked if British troops would fight or leave if they were attacked while in Ukraine, the Defence Secretary replied: ‘Those are hypotheticals, so I’m really not going to discuss and can’t discuss at this point.’
But Mr Healey said there were ‘important principles’ that ‘any British forces have the right to defend themselves if attacked’.
‘They are ready to go, they’re ready to act from day one in a ceasefire,’ he said of plans for the coalition of the willing to enforce a peace deal.
‘We are setting up the joint headquarters with the French for that, the military plans are complete.’
The Defence Secretary dismissed suggestions the UK’s approach to the war is to ‘watch and wait’.
He told BBC Breakfast: ‘The UK’s role is to stand with Ukraine on the battlefield and in the negotiations, and prepare, as we have been, leading 30 other nations with military planning for a ceasefire and a secure peace through what we call the coalition of the willing.
‘Our role is to lead the charge, as we have been, on more intensive diplomacy, to lead the charge on military aid to Ukraine so that we don’t jeopardise the peace by forgetting about the current war.
‘And being ready also to step-up economic pressure on Putin if he’s not willing to take the talks seriously.’
Sir Keir Starmer met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, and the pair expressed cautious optimism about the prospect of a truce ‘as long as Putin takes action to prove he is serious’ about ending the war, Downing Street said.
Concerns linger over the prospect of Kyiv being excluded from negotiations over its own future, and pressured to cede territory, after Mr Trump suggested any agreement may need to involve ‘swapping of land’.
Ukraine has already rejected any proposal that would compromise its borders.
CONTROLLED BRITAIN
WILL DO ANYTHING
IT’S TOLD ?
starmer said UK troops wil be sent to protect Ukriane borders
dont make me laugh, he cant even protect ours here in the uk
Feckin pillock
time to burn down the synagogues
Yes Britain will put boots on the ground in Ukraine, but have no soldiers to stand in them.
Are the three British captured still being held by the Russians ?
Not heard much about that incident since it was revealed.
Brit forces beware…. many more of you will suffer a similar fate, Stay at home & defend our Kent Beaches like you’re supposed to do.
THINK.
‘Our role is to lead the charge… blah… blah… blah…” – Bwitish Defwence Secweterry
LMFAO!!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Satanic Zionist Britain that has devoured Albion’s Christian Civilisation with its unswerving commitment to Zionists of the Beast, Jews of the anti-Christ and the Devil’s Lying Children. With its Zionist Jewish Pedophilia Royals, a Zionist Jewish King who gives his highest honours to pedophiles, child traffickers, mass murderers and covid genociders, God save the King, my backside, the quicker he is on his way to Hell the better. Britain is a Nation ruled by treacherous, traitorous shekels bribed governments, security services, law enforcers, news presenters and producers, and religious leaders. A country rotting in its ruling classes, aristocracy and upper-class Zionism’s evilness has the rest of Europe and North America.
STOPPED OLD FOLKS HEATING ALLOWANCE,
SENT MONEY TO THE CONTROLLERS OF UKRAINE
SO ZELENSKY COULD BUY KING CHARLES
MANSION FOR 20 MILLION ? SOMETHING
VERY WRONG /
If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to have clapped eyes on Nosferatu-lookalike John Healey…
you’d have immediately recognised the repulsive physiognomy of the “classic” pencil-necked thick-as-two-short-planks THICKBrit Twat…
who’s probably as surprised as anyone else that he ever made it to anything above assistant “welcoming wanker” at one of Kweer “slumber parties”…
not that any of that would stop Healey – especially now that he’s Bwitish Defwense Secweterry – from fancying his chances of fighting his way out of a wet paper-bag! 🤣
If we allow that Starmer and Trump, despite their personal animosities, both serve the same supranational agencies, then this is evidently statecraft.
Donald Trump, anyway, has already publicly mooted the possibility of a British “peacekeeping force,” policing the Ukrainian borders, should a peace treaty be brokered in Alaska.
Even if Donbass and Crimea were to be ceded, in perpetuity, to Russia, a NATO presence at the frontiers might be too ignominious a contrition for Putin to bow to. After all, he went to war, in part, to stymie NATO expansion into Kievan Rus.
Furthermore, any such concession, would allow for the opportunity of globalist false flags in the region, to precipitate the continuance of the war but on a grander scale.
British soldiers will “shoot back” if under fire but they’ll be shooting back at phantoms and wittingly or unwittingly, accelerating us all toward armaggedon.
The best solution would be a multilateral peacekeeping force, made up of European nations that are not members of NATO.
Examples of such countries are; Austria, Switzerland, Malta, Bosnia-Hertzegovina, Moldova, Monaco, Cyprus, Kosovo, Ireland and others.
I fancy, though, that the dispution would then become, “which of the countries “professing neutrality,” can actually be trusted?
As in 1939, the crazies in London are desperate for war. Only this time, there will be no Dunkirk, no last minute salvation from across the Atlantic, just ashes from coast to coast.
Derek Rutter is a genius
I salute you pal
why is the UK involved here ?
starmer cant even run the UK
trump is now offering to help
the siruation is madness
British people living on the streets food banks
starmer cant even run his own country
my god
starmer just stick to your rent boys