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Feb 15 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
👉 New -- UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked National Guard to ‘deepen military cooperation’

by @kennardmatt

#Ukraine National Guard says UK military agreed last year to start training its forces, which include a 1,000-strong neo-Nazi unit

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Photos of meeting in Kyiv last year, which UK personnel thought was private, were posted by #Ukraine’s National Guard (NGU).

UK military is engaging with NGU and aware of “the peculiarities of [its] combat operations”

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UK Ministry of Defence disputes the claim that it agreed to train #Ukraine's National Guard. It says a UK commander was misquoted.

An apparent member of a far-right Ukrainian group was trained at army academy Sandhurst in 2020.

declassifieduk.org/uk-commanders-…

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