- Tuesday, November 26, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
AMID her intense contest with former UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak for the premiership, British foreign secretary Liz Truss on Thursday (21) said she was against sending her country’s troops to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine which Russia invaded in February.
Speaking to BBC, the 46-year-old Truss, who now has locked horns with Sunak in the last leg of the race to become the Conservative Party leader and the prime minister, said, “We are doing all we can to support Ukraine. We’ve led the international coalition on sending weapons, we’re putting the sanctions in place, but I do not support the direct involvement of UK troops.”
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Truss’s remarks were in line with the US, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and most other western European nations that have backed Ukraine by sending weapons and aid while ruling out sending troops on its soil against the Russian forces.
Moscow has said any direct involvement of the western forces in Ukraine would be seen as a declaration of war against Russia.
The fates and Truss and Sunak now lie with nearly 200,000 members of the ruling party who will decide the successor of Boris Johnson by early September. The name of the new Tory leader will be revealed on September 5.
