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Posted: 14th March 2022
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As thousands of Britons consider fighting in Ukraine, Declassified visits its embassy in London to speak to volunteers. Whitehall is sending mixed messages on whether it’s legal, but Britain has no blanket ban preventing mercenaries fighting in foreign wars.
Britain hosts central Nato functions including its little-known Maritime Command in northwest London and hundreds of foreign Nato military personnel are deployed across three sites in the country.
Exclusive: British fighters in Ukraine believed to be led by top Tory’s son.
The son of a senior Conservative politician appears to be among the first wave of British volunteer fighters to reach Ukraine.
Amid ongoing atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine, far-right resistance groups appear to be in possession of UK-made anti-tank weapons.
As Russia continues its onslaught in Ukraine, we find ourselves in a new era. How the West reacts to Vladimir Putin’s aggression will make the difference between peace and further wars – and we need to learn the lessons of other military interventions.
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Nuclear arms have always been seen as useable weapons for fighting ‘limited’ nuclear wars by Nato as a whole, and by the UK and France, and Russia’s nuclear plans are likely to be similar.
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