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“This force, while not particularly large, would presumably benefit from naval gunfire support,” Sidharth Kaushal and Sam Cranny-Evans noted in a study for the Royal United Services Institute in London.

“NATO and the European Union are certainly not united in their responses …. so there has been quite a lot of friction with the United States,” said Emily Ferris, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute defense and secuity think tank in London.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace cites RUSI Commentary in his article on the situation in Ukraine: '...according to historian Professor Andrew Wilson in his excellent essay for RUSI entitled “Russia and Ukraine: ‘One People’ as Putin Claims?” they are at best “kin but not the same people”...'.