Macron's troop advance: According to EU insiders, Western special forces have long been in Ukraine. The reaction from 10 Downing Street to Emmanuel Macron's recent comments now appears to indirectly confirm the presence of British troops.
The U.S. Department of Defense also confirmed in July 2023 that members of the United States Armed Forces located in Ukraine would receive hazard pay retroactive to April 24, 2022. The Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Garron Garn said that at this time US military personnel were only serving to protect their own country's embassy in Kiev.