Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday any British soldiers training Ukrainian troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Russian forces, as would German factories producing Taurus missiles should they supply Kyiv.
Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council and has become an increasingly hawkish and anti-Western figure in Russian politics, said such activities by the West were bringing World War Three closer.
" turn their instructors into a legal target for our armed forces ... understanding perfectly well that they will be ruthlessly destroyed. And not as mercenaries, but namely as British NATO specialists," Medvedev wrote on Telegram.from Shapps' comments on Sunday, saying there were no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine.
"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."
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