The former head of the British armed forces says that Keir Starmer does not have enough troops to send to Ukraine to act as a peace force.
General Sir Nick Carter's revelation will be a shame for the prime minister who had said this week that he was willing to place British soldiers and women on 'Harms Way' to guarantee the safety of the Wartorn Country.
Sir Nick gave a sobering assessment of the state of the military ability of the UK to avert every possible attack by the Russian army of Vladimir Putin and said, “We are not equipped or staffed to be able to do that at the moment.”
He said that the armed forces of Great Britain were exhausted by what he described as 30 years of neglect and by 'Give up a large number of tanks and artillery pieces Ukraine 'to help President Volodymyr Zenskyy.
And in another bomb, he said that the British army could not protect the country if it were under the same air bombing that Ukraine had suffered in the past three years.
Last night, BBC was published, Sir Nick said that Sir Keir could only send troops to Ukraine as part of an 'observer mission' where they 'drive around in white vehicles'.
'But if I suspect it must be a force that can scare off PutinThe aggression then fundamentally we are not equipped or manned to be able to do that right now, “he said.
He said that the British army is “remarkably hollow” and that the UK “was very vulnerable at the moment.”
Former head of the armed forces of Great Britain, General Sir Nick Carter, says Sir Keir Starmer does not have enough troops to send to Ukraine to act as a peace force
Sir Nick gave a sobering assessment of the state of the military ability of the UK to avert every possible attack from the Russian army of Vladimir Putin
Sir Keir Starmer (photo) had sworn this week that he is willing to place British soldiers and women in 'Harm's Way' to help guarantee
Sir Nick warned: 'Whether we like it or not, that means that we have to protect ourselves.
'The kind of attack that Ukraine has suffered in the air in the air through drones and rockets over the past three years is untenable as far as the UK is concerned.
“We can perhaps park a torpedo hunter in the Thames to protect parts of London, but nothing more than that.”
He said that the reliability of Great Britain on submarine cables for data, in which 45 percent of the British gas supply comes from Norway, and 40 percent of food by sea has brought the country into a vulnerable position.
Labor has set the objective of publishing 2.5 percent of GDP to the defense at the end of this parliament.
But Sir Nick says that 'now' should spend as 'we will have to spend more money if we seriously believe that Putin is a threat to us in the future'.
The prime minister will fly to Washington next week to meet US President Donald Trump to discuss a Ukraine peace plan.
According to sources, it will include less than 30,000 European troops to control the ceases -the Fire Deal that Russia agrees with.
Sir Nick said that the armed forces of Great Britain were exhausted by what he described as 30 years of neglect
British Army Challenger 2 tanks can be seen on the training field in Nowa Deba on September 21, 2022, in Nowa Deba, Subcarpathian Voivodehip, Poland
Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting during a visit to the Radar MMS Research and Production Enterprise, Manufacturing Air and Sea Dons, in St. Petersburg, Russia – February 19, 2025
American and Russian delegations that attend the bilateral meeting in the Diriyah Palace on Tuesday
Donald Trump (photo) launched a diverse attack on VolodyMyr Zelensky on his Platform Truth Social
Zensky has destroyed the United States for 'help' Vladimir Putin 'to get out of isolation'
Starmer will visit the White House in the coming days and it is expected that the American leader will describe an Anglo-French strategy for a 'reassuring force' consisting of members of European soldiers who would be placed far from the current front lines.
This power would rely on 'technical monitoring', including information, monitoring and reconnaissance aircraft, drones and satellites to give a 'complete picture of what is going on', a Western official told The Telegraph.
However, the official added that the peace force would be supported by 'sufficient firepower to check and shoot all Russian attacks.
Navale patrol ships would also be sent to the Black Sea to check the Russian threats for the waters around Ukraine.
The plan is considerably short of the 200,000 troops that Zelensky applied for in the case of a cease -the fire.
