{"id":4444,"date":"2026-02-21T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-should-send-non-combat-troops-to-ukraine-now-former-pm-johnson-tells-bbc\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:14:21","slug":"uk-should-send-non-combat-troops-to-ukraine-now-former-pm-johnson-tells-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-should-send-non-combat-troops-to-ukraine-now-former-pm-johnson-tells-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"UK should send non-combat troops to Ukraine now, former PM Johnson tells BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK should send non-combat troops to Ukraine now, former PM Johnson tells BBC<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mun6g1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Asked if he meant that UK and other European allies&#8217; forces should go to safe parts of Ukraine now to &#8220;flip a switch&#8221;, he said: &#8220;Yes, I think, you know, if we are willing to do it in the context of a ceasefire, which of course puts all the initiative, all the power in Putin&#8217;s hands, why not do it now?<\/p>\n<p>Published at Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:15:09 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK should send non-combat troops to Ukraine now, former PM Johnson tells BBC Asked if he meant that UK and other European allies&#8217; forces should go to safe parts of Ukraine now to &#8220;flip a switch&#8221;, he said: &#8220;Yes, I think, you know, if we are willing to do it in the context of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-should-send-non-combat-troops-to-ukraine-now-former-pm-johnson-tells-bbc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK should send non-combat troops to Ukraine now, former PM Johnson tells BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}