Russia says it will look into reports that British SAS have been deployed to western Ukraine – again ratcheting up tensions with the West.
If Vladimir Putin’s forces find that the Special Air Service are operating in the country, that could dramatically escalate the war because Britain is a Nato member.
Independent observers have long ago come to view Russian claims about the war with severe scepticism, but the UK did not deny that its forces were there. Britain sent military trainers to Ukraine earlier this year to instruct local forces in using anti-tank weapons. Scenes from last week in Lviv, Western Ukraine, where the SAS are claimed to be on ‘sabotage’ operations
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