United Kingdom<\/a> Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday he has no immediate plans to send troops to Ukraine, despite comments made by the recently appointed defense minister who last month suggested troops could be sent to the country to conduct training.<\/p>\n Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the UK has yet to send troops, so it could reduce the risk of a direct conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n British Defense Minister Grant Shapps told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper last month he wanted to send military instructors to Ukraine and train their forces in Britain or other western countries.<\/p>\n BRITISH PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK NAMES GRANT SHAPPS AS NEXT DEFENSE SECRETARY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n But Shapps\u2019 vision and Sunak\u2019s vision did not appear to line up, as the prime minister, within hours, said there were no immediate plans to send British troops to Ukraine.<\/p>\n “What the defense secretary was saying was that it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine,” Sunak told reporters at the start of the governing Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester. “But that’s something for the long term, not the here and now. There are no British soldiers that will be sent to fight in the current conflict.”<\/p>\n READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Any British troops training Ukrainian soldiers in Ukraine would become targets for Russian forces, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday.<\/p>\n UK PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK MAKES CLIMATE ACTIVISTS SEETHE IN BOLD MOVE FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n That is not to say Britain is not providing training to Ukrainians<\/a>. In fact, the UK has trained about 20,000 Ukrainians with five-week military courses over the past year, Reuters reported, and it intends to continue training a similar number of people in the future.<\/p>\n Shapps told The Sunday Telegraph there was scope to provide military training<\/a> in Ukraine after a discussion with British military chiefs on Friday.<\/p>\n “I was talking today about eventually getting the training brought closer and actually into Ukraine as well,” he was quoted as saying. “Particularly in the west of the country, I think the opportunity now is to bring more things ‘in country’.”<\/p>\n PUTIN SELECTS FORMER PRIGOZHIN AIDE TO TRAIN UKRAINIAN VOLUNTEERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n