Kemi Badenoch reiterated her support for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid talks of deploying British troops to Ukraine. When asked if there was a high risk factor with sending British troops to Ukraine, the Opposition leader said: "This is something we need to be very careful about with how we provide support. We don't want to put British troops in a situation that's going to create more danger and escalate things." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I have always said that President Zelenskyy was a hero.
00:04I think that he is fighting a war on behalf of all of Europe.
00:08We all know that Russia is the aggressor here.
00:10But this is something that we need to be very careful about in how we provide support.
00:14We should do it with the United States.
00:16When the Prime Minister talked about boots on the ground, I asked him exactly what that meant,
00:21who was in the coalition of the willing,
00:23because we don't want to put British troops in a situation that's going to create more danger and escalate things.
00:29What we want to see is a de-escalation of the war.
00:32But we should do all that we can to help President Zelenskyy protect Ukraine.