How three British PMs failed to contain Putin
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The Ukranians Were Very Concerned About a Further Invasion
Falan says he was repeatedly asked for weapons by poroshenko, who was the then ukranian president. Falan would go to ukrane once a year, because we were provided some training in the country but it was very explicitly non lethal training. On these trips to kiev, he would see proshenko and the foreign minister and defence ministers, and t they would be begging britain for for more weapons. But he er, he just couldn't get the support from it, from the top of government. And thnd that continued. In 20 17, boris johnson reaffirmed the position that only non lefal equipment would be sent to ukraine in
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