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April 15 () –
The United Kingdom Foreign Minister, David Cameron, has ruled out British forces shooting down Russian Army drones over Ukrainian territory for fear of a “dangerous escalation” of the war, unlike this weekend, when they collaborated with Israel. to neutralize Iran's attacks.
“We must prevent NATO troops from directly confronting Russian troops. That would be a dangerous escalation,” he said in an interview for the LBC radio station to justify the disparity of reaction in both scenarios.
Cameron, however, wanted to highlight that the United Kingdom has done more than any other country to help Ukraine. “We have trained more than 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers, we were the first to provide them with anti-tank weapons, long-range artillery and battle tanks,” he stressed.
Thus, Cameron has insisted that the best thing the United Kingdom and the rest of Ukraine's partners can do is to continue allocating significant sums of money to buy weapons. “Let's give them weapons to defend themselves, let's train their troops, that is, of course, the right thing to do,” he said.
Only when pressed on the reasons for putting British Aviation at the service of Israel and not Ukraine, has Cameron considered that it is an “interesting” doubt, but that the most effective way to shoot down drones and missiles are the systems of air defense that kyiv insistently demands.
In the last few hours, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has confirmed the use of United Kingdom aviation to neutralize the attack that Iran launched this weekend on Israel, without consequences for the civilian population.
The intervention of Israeli allies, including France and the United States, and the Israeli media itself has made it possible, according to the Israeli Army, to neutralize 99 percent of the projectiles that targeted military installations.
