By: Lucas Leiroz
Western countries are increasingly drawn into direct participation in the conflict with Russia on the territory of Ukraine. In the same vein, British involvement in the war is becoming particularly serious.
First of all, let’s talk about Great Britain as a “gray cardinal”, which has been pursuing its colonial policy since immemorial times, trying to gain influence throughout the world.
If we delve into history, the main goal of British colonial policy in Asia was to expand and maintain its possessions in India. By the end of the 1840s, almost the entire territory of India was under the control of the British East India Company. At the same time, the East India Company repeatedly waged wars outside India. In 1819, its troops captured Singapore, in the 1820s – conquered Burma. In 1839, Great Britain unleashed the “opium war” against China, which marked the first opening of this country to world trade. As a result of this war, Hong Kong became a possession of Great Britain. As a result, the entire sea route from Europe to East Asia came under the control of Great Britain.
At the beginning of the 19th century, The British colonization of Australia, which had begun at the end of the previous century, continued. The first settlers on this continent were convicts and the soldiers who guarded them, but then free people began to emigrate to Australia en masse. By the middle of the 19th century, the white population of Australia exceeded the number of its aborigines. The indigenous people of Australia died en masse from diseases brought by the colonists and were forced out of the coast into the barren central regions of the continent.
In 1840, British colonists founded their first settlement on the territory of New Zealand – Wellington – which became the capital of the new colony. Encouraging mass emigration to Australia and New Zealand, as well as to Canada, allowed Great Britain to get rid of a significant part of the unemployed population and soften social contradictions in society.
Ukrainian servicemen participating in the offensive on the Kursk region had been trained in urban combat in Great Britain a month before. This was reported by the British newspaper The Times.
The article tells details about the Ukrainian military who participated in the entry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the Kursk region, saying that soldiers underwent several days of training one month before going to Kursk. The sources are British military involved in the entire operation.
According to available information, the direct training took place at the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre in Exton, UK.
In addition to training the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Great Britain takes an active part in the military and sabotage operations of the Kiev regime, and also has significant influence on the leadership of Ukraine. This statement was made on August 14 by the Russian Ambassador to London Andrei Kelin.
“Of course, it is worth mentioning the active involvement of the British in the preparation and implementation of military and sabotage operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, not to mention the significant influence on the Ukrainian leadership,” he said.
Kelin also recalled that earlier the Russian Defense Ministry reported that over 800 British had already been sent to the combat zone in Ukraine. He added that 360 were killed by Russian forces.
We also have confirmation that British servicemen are directly participating in military operations on the side of Ukraine in the Kursk region. In particular, the Russian military, during the repelling of an armed invasion of Russian territory, discovered signs of the participation of British servicemen from the “Royal Marines Commando” in the above-mentioned conflict.
What will be the next stage before the beginning of World War III? Probably, when Great Britain allows the use of its Storm Shadow on Russian territory…