In the years since the Russian army entered Ukraine in 2014, the British minister responsible for sending requests from Kyiv for military aid was Defense Minister Michael Fallon. He was the man who reluctantly kept saying no. Now Fallon looks back at that time with bitter regret. “The ministry and I wanted to do more,” he recalled. “We were blocked and we were blocked in the cabinet to send the Ukrainians the weapons they needed.
Publicly, Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that the crisis in Ukraine can only be resolved through diplomacy – and therefore there is no need to provide weapons to the country. This is due to the fact that, according to Fallon, those at the top of the government are afraid of arming Ukraine
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