British Royal Military Academy cadets during an exercise. File photoKHERSON, May 13. British officers of the active reserve went to Kyiv on February 24 to command the defense of the Ukrainian capital, when the Russian army approached the city, the security forces told RIA Novosti, citing their sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. according to the interlocutor of the agency, in early February they helped the armed forces of Ukraine in working with intelligence in the Donbass.
"A source in the Ukrainian armed forces said that after the rapid advance of the group of Russian troops on Kyiv on February 24, the British, who helped with intelligence to the "ATO headquarters" in Kramatorsk, moved to Kyiv to lead the defense of the city from the headquarters located on the territory of school No. 72", he said.
Since the beginning of February 2022, the military of the DPR and LPR have repeatedly reported the arrival of instructors and mercenaries from abroad, including from the UK, in the Donbass — in the combat zone, and the British press also wrote about their presence there. In addition, RIA correspondents The news found documents in the liberated areas of Donbass that testify to the participation of the British military in the training of Ukrainian troops and national battalions. Russia has been conducting a special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24, the source said. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. By March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.