British Special Forces are conducting operations in Ukraine. Last week, a US commander unintentionally revealed this when he talked about SpecOps tactics. Saying that they have learned lessons from Ukraine - “mostly through the eyes of our UK SpecOps partners who not only have done that in their formations, but they've also learned very quickly that they needed other elements of their joint force.” He then went on to say that British commandos have required Air Force advice on drone operations & Navy advice for operations in the Black Sea. Western troops in Ukraine have long been rumored. German generals were caught on recording earlier this year joking about how there are a lot of Ukrainians with American accents running around Kyiv and leaked documents from the US last year estimated that at least 50 British soldiers were in Ukraine and european officials have said anonymously for a while now that “Everyone knows there are Western Special Forces in Ukraine but it’s not acknowledged”. Up until this point, it’s always been handwaved away as training or protecting the embassy but the American commander’s comments seem to suggest that they are conducting operations. However - since he did this interview, his quotes outing the UK have been removed from the interview. So we called the Pentagon to find out why, and they say his quotes discussing British involvement were supposed to be off the record and were out of context. Yikes but the UK replied to this by saying they don’t comment on their special forces.
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Produced by: Ben Wheeler, Philip DeFranco
Edited by: Ben Wheeler
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Ben Wheeler, Philip DeFranco
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9 сен 2024
