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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke and Kate Devlin

UK ‘scales back’ plans for 30,000-troop reassurance force in Ukraine

The UK has reportedly scaled back its plans to put troops in Ukraine, now offering a smaller “reassurance force” to support peace efforts in the region.

While a 30,000-strong group from countries that make up the coalition of the willing – a group of countries which have pledged support for Ukraine against Russia’s aggression – had initially been floated, military chiefs are now said to have dropped the idea, instead favouring a smaller, “more realistic” operation.

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