Brits Tell Kiev Nazis, We’ve Got Your Back

Nov. 26, 2022 (EIRNS)—U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly followed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pilgrimage to Kiev last week with one of his own, to promise the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime that the U.K. will “ensure the country has the critical practical support it needs through the winter.” British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace is on an even more strident campaign to deliver the message to the Kiev regime that “we’ve got your back—You have to have to keep the momentum of the war against Russia going through the winter.”

The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office reported on Nov. 25 Cleverly’s message for President Zelenskyy and the host of other officials he met: “As winter sets in, Russia is continuing to try and break Ukrainian resolve through its brutal attacks on civilians, hospitals and energy infrastructure. Russia will fail. The U.K. stands shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.... Our support will continue for as long as it takes for this remarkable country to recover.” (What he promised as reconstruction funds was a cruel joke, essentially “a further £3 million of support to the Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine to rebuild vital local infrastructure” go?)

Defense Secretary Wallace declared during a visit to a shipyard in Glasgow the same day that Ukrainians must “press the momentum to keep pushing Russia back.... I think it’s really, really important that we show international commitment and support and solidarity for Ukraine,” according to the Independent.

Wallace told the Daily Beast, in an exclusive interview on Nov. 24, that the U.K. is urging Ukraine to “keep up the pressure, keep up the momentum” against Russian forces through the winter months. Lying that the Ukrainians have the advantage “in equipment training and quality of their personnel against the demoralized, poorly trained, poorly equipped Russians,” Wallace repeated: “it would be in the Ukraine’s interest to maintain momentum through the winter.” This is the advice “he would give to his Ukrainian counterparts, who he speaks to ‘almost weekly,’ ” Wallace told the Daily Beast. He claimed the “300,000 pieces of arctic warfare kit” the Ukrainian military has received from the international community is enough cover.

Even the Daily Beast recognized that the British campaign for “keeping up the momentum during winter” runs counter to the efforts of senior U.S. officials, such as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, to “nudge” Ukraine to “use the expected slowdown in military operations over the winter as a ‘window’ for discussions with the Russians.”

The Ukrainians’ answer to the U.K.’s beat, a senior Ukrainian military officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, made clear to the Daily Beast. He praised the British commitment to Ukraine as “well above” that of most other countries; that the U.K. Ministry of Defense is “extraordinarily committed.... If our armed forces need a particular vehicle or piece of weaponry, the Brits will search through the military catalogues of different countries, and find what we need,” and they have worked overtime and weekends during key points of Ukraine’s military campaigns. The Ukrainian official cited Boris Johnson’s early and regular trips to Kiev “as an important factor in boosting Ukrainian morale and demonstrating international support.”